Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by or due to perversity of the judgment; obstinately opinionated; misguided; stubborn.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wrong in opinion or principle; having a perverse understanding; perverse.
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- adjective having an
obstinately perverse opinion orjudgement
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective obstinately perverse in judgment or opinion
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Examples
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Environmental advocates welcomed the administration's reversal of what they called a wrongheaded move earlier in the year.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN M. BRODER 2010
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Environmental advocates welcomed the administration's reversal of what they called a wrongheaded move earlier in the year.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN M. BRODER 2010
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Environmental advocates welcomed the administration's reversal of what they called a wrongheaded move earlier in the year.
NYT > Home Page By JOHN M. BRODER 2010
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An article explaining why certain wrongheaded conservatives are even more wrongheaded than President Bush.
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What I’ve come to see as particularly wrongheaded is the notion that a spokesman, while on the job, speaks for himself.
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In the case of Heidegger, in particular, the paramount position of technology in modern society is a symptom of something more fundamental, namely a wrongheaded attitude towards Being which has been in the making for almost 25 centuries.
Philosophy of Technology Franssen, Maarten 2009
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But afterward, he called the idea wrongheaded, praising the college's performance.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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Glover describes last week's EHRC report as "wrongheaded" in its ideas of fairness.
It's equality of life chances, not literal equality, that the left espouses Sunder Katwala 2010
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Since when is punishing someone for willfully and maliciously damaging another person's property "wrongheaded"?
An Alternative Approach to the Graffiti “Problem” « PubliCola 2010
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That kind of wrongheaded libel makes me wonder if critics actually watched the film or if they just glanced at the trailer and press materials.
Scott Mendelson: HuffPost Weekend Box Office in Review: Blind Side Finally Takes the Top Spot 2009
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