wrongheaded

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This distinguishes it unfavorably from the traditional western, which, however reductive or politically wrongheaded, has always known how to keep an audience interested.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 5, 2026

It’s time once again for the 2023 acting hall of shame — the year’s most wrongheaded performances by talented people.

From Salon • Dec. 29, 2023

There was also his disgust at recent fictionalized accounts of these horrors that he feels are wrongheaded to the importance of the subject.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

Worrying about A.I. safety isn’t wrongheaded, but the doomers’ path to notability has insiders raising eyebrows.

From Slate • Nov. 14, 2023

Grampa sounded so wrongheaded, I couldn’t believe it Maybe some of what Dad was always spouting about equality and the American dream had rubbed off on me.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe