wrongheaded

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  1. Characterized by or due to perversity of the judgment; obstinately opinionated; misguided; stubborn. A wrongheaded distrust of England. Bp. Berkeley, Querist, § 436.

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  • The witch might be wrongheaded, but the witch had the power. —  Dragon on a Pedestal
  • It is believed that no stock of the aborigines found by civilized nations on the globe, have received the same amount of considerate and benevolent and humane treatment, as denoted by its laws, its treaties, and general administration of Indian affairs, from the establishment of the Constitution, and this too, in the face of the most hostile, wrongheaded, and capricious conduct on their part, that ever signalized the history of a barbarous people. —  Personal Memoirs Of A Residence Of Thirty Years With The Indian Tribes On The American Frontiers
  • Courts occasionally say things that are silly, wrongheaded, or confused, and you need to think independently about what judges say. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Not only do we believe that the policies he pursued were wrongheaded, but the way he pursed them was even more so. —  Center for American Progress
  • To implicitly side with Cain seems wrongheaded, but particularly so since Jesus tells his disciples that their primary duty is to love one another. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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