wrongheaded
adjective
wrong in judgment or opinion; misguided and stubborn; perverse.
wrongheadedness
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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
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
Where oafishness is the defining characteristic of a Son, then, wrongheadedness is the central feature of a Nephew.
From The Verge ● Aug. 14, 2018
He deserves credit, however, for having opposed the emperor's wasteful profusion, with a perseverance which the tsar called wrongheadedness, though he did not venture to break with him.
From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Xavier Hommaire de Hell
