Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Mistaken or misguided, often stubbornly so.
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- adjective Persistently or stubbornly
erroneous
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Examples
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That's a welcome development in a debate too often characterized by wrong-headed economics and outright demagoguery.
Marshall Auerback: Fiscal Policy for the People? Why Obama Should Invoke the 14th Amendment Marshall Auerback 2011
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That's a welcome development in a debate too often characterized by wrong-headed economics and outright demagoguery.
Marshall Auerback: Fiscal Policy for the People? Why Obama Should Invoke the 14th Amendment Marshall Auerback 2011
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He outlined a vision for the future that some Republican lawmakers quickly dubbed wrong-headed.
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CPSIA is the sloppiest, most wrong-headed pieces of legislation I've heard of in a while.
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This is a No Pasaran moment for the green movement, shared by an extraordinary cross-section of society who believe there has to be a limit to what we sacrifice on the altar of wrong-headed progress.
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And yesterday Mr. Schumer called the decision the "final nail in the coffin of that wrong-headed idea."
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And I think for people who are watching the ‘Arab Spring’ or the 'Arab Awakening,' as some have called it, unfold in these weeks and month, it would be wrong-headed to ascribe the agenda across the Arab world as entirely an internally-driven one.
US Criticizes Syria for 'Cynical' Golan Heights Incident 2011
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As faith-based organizations laboring to ease suffering and support reconstruction in Haiti, we are writing this piece, with the hope that no more preventable deaths will result from this wrong-headed policy that not only undermines the relief efforts in Haiti, but also violates our common belief in the sanctity and dignity of the human person.
Ruth Messinger: Chronicle of a Death Foretold Ruth Messinger 2011
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And I think for people who are watching the ‘Arab Spring’ or the 'Arab Awakening,' as some have called it, unfold in these weeks and month, it would be wrong-headed to ascribe the agenda across the Arab world as entirely an internally-driven one.
US Criticizes Syria for 'Cynical' Golan Heights Incident 2011
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It's wrong-headed, and ultimately pointless and doomed to failure, but finding a way to surmount those barriers is probably going to take a while even after the majority has agreed that they're unacceptable. technogeek replied to comment from Karl Jones
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