wrongheadedness
- a word derived from wrongheaded.
Example Sentences
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His book is jam-packed with examples of wrongheadedness, some amusing, some hair-raising, and it serves as a useful cautionary tale as America once again faces off with secretive and suspicious great-power rivals.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2022
The poems in this posthumous collection are, as so often in his work, intelligent, high-spirited, coolly or crudely argued, full of small delights, often with a strong dose of wrongheadedness.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2022
Among the most influential was 20th-century British philosopher Gilbert Ryle, who put to rest the wrongheadedness of Cartesian mind-body dualism by metaphorically debunking this notion as the “ghost in the machine.”
From Scientific American • Oct. 3, 2021
"To me, the Bendell paper is a perfect storm of misguidedness and wrongheadedness," Mann says.
From BBC • Mar. 15, 2020
Martin Decoud, the dilettante in life, imagined himself to derive an artistic pleasure from watching the picturesque extreme of wrongheadedness into which an honest, almost sacred, conviction may drive a man.
From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Conrad, Joseph
