Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being wrongheaded; perversity of judgment.
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- noun The state of being
wrongheaded
Etymologies
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Examples
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Watching the latest film rendition of Brideshead Revisited, it suddenly struck me, the 'wrongheadedness' of Charles Ryder's besotted adulation of the glittering Flytes.
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The moral rightness of this man's life was worthy of all praise; but in spite of some intellectual acumen, Knight had in him a modicum of that wrongheadedness which is mostly found in scrupulously honest people.
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a modicum of that wrongheadedness which is mostly found in scrupulously honest people.
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The wrongheadedness of both the prejudice and the failure to recognize such a right has not been self-evident forever, of course.
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With that simple question to the Iowa State Legislature, a gay man recently laid bare the fundamental wrongheadedness of all the laws and referendums aimed at either permitting or forbidding same-sex marriage.
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O'Reilly feels voters are turned off by a president who doesn't opine on the wrongheadedness of certain Constitutional rights.
Stuart Connelly: What About The Wisdom? The View & Bill O'Reilly
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New York's success against crime over the past two decades has proved the wrongheadedness of the "incapacitation or nothing" strategy.
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The wrongheadedness of both the prejudice and the failure to recognize such a right has not been self-evident forever, of course.
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The wrongheadedness of that view should now be clearer than ever.
Mark Engler: Didn't Like the Stimulus? You Might Hate It When It's Gone
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The wrongheadedness of that view should now be clearer than ever.
Mark Engler: Didn't Like the Stimulus? You Might Hate It When It's Gone
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