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
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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.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884
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a modicum of that wrongheadedness which is mostly found in scrupulously honest people.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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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.
Eliot Daley: Same-Sex Marriage Is Not A Matter For Ballots Eliot Daley 2011
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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.
Eliot Daley: Same-Sex Marriage Is Not A Matter For Ballots Eliot Daley 2011
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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 Stuart Connelly 2010
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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.
How to Stop Urban Crime Without Jail Time Franklin E. Zimring 2012
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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.
Eliot Daley: Same-Sex Marriage Is Not A Matter For Ballots Eliot Daley 2011
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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 Mark Engler 2011
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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 Mark Engler 2011
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