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Definition of wrong-headed in English: wrong-headedadjective Having or showing bad judgement; misguided. this approach is both wrong-headed and naive Example sentencesExamples - ‘It just seemed to me that their way of paying tribute was wrong-headed,’ he said.
- Furthermore, calls to prioritise cleaner air at the expense of other beneficial aspects of modern life, such as transport and industry, seem as wrong-headed as they are unnecessary.
- But the suggestion that scientists are pointlessly pursuing experiments and models that do not work is just wrong-headed.
- They were full of regret at missed opportunities and wrong-headed policies, but they were not angry.
- They are wrong-headed and politically driven obsessions, not compassionate advisements intended to relieve human suffering.
- That naive misunderstanding summarizes the threat posed by this good-hearted, wrong-headed legislation.
- The approach such provisions represent is wrong-headed and ill-considered - and unworthy of a democratic society.
- The weakening of the Federalist party and its eventual demise a few years later were largely due to Hamilton's wrong-headed meddling.
- I think they are often wrong-headed and foolish, but nobody deserves to be indiscriminately beaten because of their political beliefs.
- However wrong-headed their views, they are nonetheless entitled to air them; as elected leaders they can claim a mandate to put them forward.
- You may regard some decisions as misconceived and wrong-headed, but we must have an authoritative structure to preserve the rule of law.
- To act like the worlds of politics and sport are completely separated and that there is no interaction between them at all is wrong-headed and ridiculous.
- My understanding (let alone expertise) in such fields is nonexistent and some of my opinions others on this site find wrong-headed.
- Well, Jonathan, my understanding is that the thinking at the time was laudable, but it was probably wrong-headed.
- If you feel really strongly that my opinions are shocking or wrong-headed, you could perfectly well publish them with an appropriate editorial disclaimer.
- I suppose I just think the world is complex, and even wrong-headed actions can sometimes have beneficial outcomes.
- I find this totally stunning and completely wrong-headed.
- The government bureaucrats may continue in the old, wrong-headed, and unscientific rhetoric, but the public health people should know better.
- But his vigilante approach seems so wrong-headed.
- Sometimes a person can go so far out that you have difficulty knowing whether their views are wrong-headed only or actually deranged.
Synonyms unwise, injudicious, misguided, imprudent, impolitic, incautious, ill-considered, ill-judged, ill-conceived, ill-thought-out, badly planned, inexpedient
Derivatives adverbˌrɒŋˈhɛdɪdli But it would be an unjustifiable violation of another's personal freedom to coercively attempt to prevent him from ingesting some substance that he - however wrong-headedly from the critic's perspective - finds desirable, useful, or pleasurable. Example sentencesExamples - I'm going to try to convince you that we developers start off a project wrong-headedly.
- She discusses happiness in the Observer, I think about as wrong-headedly as one can get.
- Alas, at nearly 70 minutes, By the Way is overlong and simply too restrained, and too wrong-headedly earnest, to leave more than a marginal impression.
- I haven't seen either formally debate, but I've seen them both on video, and have read their blog posts, and I get the sense that she's just as poised and articulate and clever (and often dangerously wrong-headedly foolish) as he is.
nounˌrɒŋˈhɛdɪdnəs Moreover, the wrong-headedness of this single text reveals some of the deeper sources of the confusion that prevails in contemporary education. Example sentencesExamples - The most striking element of their behaviour has been a capacity to follow every bad decision with a worse one, combining wrong-headedness with moral weakness to create layer upon layer of confusion, embarrassment and opprobrium.
- But neither does the wrong-headedness of the artists' views mean that the work of art they create is worthless.
- Eventually, the newspaper will stop printing the increasingly vituperative letters to the editor about the wrong-headedness of last week's column and of half of the preceding letters to the editor about it.
- Disregarding for a moment the incredible hubris of titling a compilation album Music of the Millennium, there's still so much unintentional hilarity here as to make this CD almost fascinating in its wrong-headedness.
Rhymes bareheaded, boneheaded, fatheaded, hard-headed, hot-headed, light-headed, pig-headed, pinheaded, thickheaded, unleaded, unwedded, wooden-headed |