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wrong-mindedly

wrong-mindedly is the alternative form of wrongmindedly.

Meaning of wrongmindedly

Adverb

wrongmindedly (comparative more wrongmindedly, superlative most wrongmindedly)

  1. In a wrongminded manner.
    • There were Americans who had a dream of schools which were diverse and which were, in fact, sectarian and which would persist wrongmindedly in the perpetuation of Amish views on matters or Catholic or Lutheran and so forth.1978, Tuition Tax Relief Bills: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Taxation and Debt Management Generally of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session...

Forms of wrong-mindedly

comparativemore wrong-mindedly
superlativemost wrong-mindedly

Origin of wrong-mindedly

From wrong-minded + -ly.

Questions about wrong-mindedly

What is wrong-mindedly the alternative form of?
Wrong-mindedly is the alternative form of wrongmindedly.

Words near wrong-mindedly in the dictionary

  1. wrong-headed
  2. wrong-headedly
  3. wrong-headedness
  4. wrong-headednesses
  5. wrong-minded
  6. wrong-mindedly
  7. wrong-mindedness
  8. wrong-place-wrong-timing
  9. wrong-take
  10. wrong-think
  11. wrong-thinks

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