wrongheaded
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- adjective
- /ˈrɔŋˌhɛdɪd/
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equivocado
- "An opinion may be wrongheaded," Safire told me by email last week, "but it is never wrong."
Examples
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"We thought this was a wrongheaded approach," said chamber spokesman Garrick Taylor.
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Many people consider his refusal to adapt to new technology as wrongheaded.
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Once again, it is wrongheaded to look to social life for models represented in the minstrel show.
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And that is what makes Richard's piece so wrongheaded.
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I think his views are wrongheaded. Again, that doesn't involve you; it involves me and me alone.
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I also have no desire to participate in a government organization that I believe is wrongheaded and possibly unconstitutional.
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As a response to the threat the nation faces, complacency is at least as wrongheaded as hysteria.
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The laws restricting speech (save a few categories) are, in my book, wrongheaded.
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I don't pretend to understand why seemingly reasonable and decent people adopt what strikes me as an obviously wrongheaded position on marriage equality.
Academic text (2009) -
Ignoring a seeming contradiction in these sentences, Toms continues by attacking what he sees as the organizers' wrongheaded reading of Thoreau.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
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Shows wrong ideas or bad judgment
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State opinions as certainly correct and ignore other views
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Refusing to change your mind or actions even when you are wrong
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Not willing to accept different ideas or change
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How Wrongheaded
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Etymology
The word wrongheaded is a simple combination of wrong ('not correct') and head or headed ('head' as 'mind' or the direction you are going), similar to the familiar word headstrong. So it gives the picture of a person whose 'head' is set the wrong way, and means someone who keeps to wrong or misguided ideas.