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- noun Alternative spelling of
wrongheadedness .
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First off, I'm amazed by the wrong-headedness of some of the commentary about this; if you want fixed term parliaments, you simply have to decouple votes of confidence from dissolutions in more or less this way.
So, that coalition then loveandgarbage 2010
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Some say this destructiveness is intended; most say it is inadvertent, an outgrowth of inexperience, ideological wrong-headedness and an oddly undefined character.
Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism Shelby Steele 2011
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I would have thought that to show one his/her "wrong-headedness" you would have to actually address what that person is saying.
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That's where "wrong-headedness" comes to this issue for me. seandr
An Alternative Approach to the Graffiti “Problem” « PubliCola 2010
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I would like to say that I am disappointed by this new round of sanctions leveled against Iran by Congress, but the sad fact is that I didn't expect anything less than the aggressive wrong-headedness displayed by our elected legislators last week.
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One's head reels pondering the wrong-headedness and scattershot efforts of all three.
Pearl Korn: Dems, Progressive Activist Organizations and Unions? 2010
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One example of such egregious establishment wrong-headedness that I cite in Londonistan is in fact one of the authors of this report, Robert Lambert.
Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010
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But without ever talking about it, this film is yet another indictment of the futility, the hubris and the just plain wrong-headedness of the war on Iraq, a war that was started under false, perhaps even criminal, pretenses - and which has left thousands of soldiers in similar or worse shape.
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One example of such egregious establishment wrong-headedness that I cite in Londonistan is in fact one of the authors of this report, Robert Lambert.
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I would like to say that I am disappointed by this new round of sanctions leveled against Iran by Congress, but the sad fact is that I didn't expect anything less than the aggressive wrong-headedness displayed by our elected legislators last week.
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