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

The suggestion the provision applies "could not be more wrongheaded," he added.

From Salon • Mar. 4, 2024

Understanding the purposes of wrongful death law turns out to be crucial to seeing one of the reasons why the Alabama court’s decision is so wrongheaded.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2024

When a “well-known journal” proposed “some wrongheaded cuts,” she withdrew the piece and sent it to Brock at the Arkansas International, where he ran it intact.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2024

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