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

But there is much that is historically wrongheaded, strategically unwise, and logically vague or self-contradictory in this document.

From Slate • Dec. 8, 2025

But those were nothing next to the most wrongheaded move in recent Emmys history: the penalizing charity counter.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2025

My own quixotic desire for programs where people say what they ought to say when they ought to say it, is, from a dramatic standpoint, of course completely wrongheaded.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2023

You don’t throw away a relationship that’s been going on since second grade over a sandwich, no matter how wrongheaded the other person is being.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman