wrongheadedly
- adverb
- /ˈrɔŋˌhɛdɪdli/
:
erróneamente
- The team was led wrongheadedly by the coach who refused to listen to the players' concerns.
Examples
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Nigel wanted attention from the Morriseys, from Lavinia, but he went about getting it exactly the wrong way, as wrongheadedly as a child who will never win his parents' love and whose very gesture leeches what little sense of duty they might have.
Fiction book (1997) -
Otherwise, it strikes me that both Broadwell and Kelley were attempting to act, however wrongheadedly, in Petraeus's interests.
Blog text (29) -
The reason we are where we are now in financial straits is due to the small decisions made by people like Whitmarsh who wrongheadedly did the bidding of the unions.
Blog text (27) -
She wrongheadedly believed that ignoring the rules would lead to a better outcome.
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He wrongheadedly argued that his method was the only correct way to solve the problem.
Synonyms
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A wrong way of acting because of bad judgment or wrong beliefs
In a stubborn way, refusing to change even when shown to be wrong
Antonyms
How Wrongheaded
Surface Forms
Morphology
wrongheadedly = wrongheaded (transparent) = wrong + head + ed + ly
Formed from the compound adjective 'wrong-headed' (wrong + headed) with the productive adverbial suffix '-ly', so the adverbial meaning is directly predictable.
Etymology
The word wrongheadedly comes from the simple parts wrong ('not correct') and head ('mind' or 'direction'), plus -ly to make it an adverb. A helpful image is someone whose head points the 'wrong way' — so to act wrongheadedly is to act because of a wrong or stubborn idea.