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wrong-think

wrong-think is the alternative spelling of wrongthink.

Meaning of wrongthink

Noun

wrongthink (usually uncountable, plural wrongthinks)

  1. (usually) Beliefs or opinions that run contrary to the prevailing or mainstream orthodoxy.
    • In other words I spent yesterday in bed with a headache not merely because of my bad attitudes, unpleasant tempers and wrongthink, but because both my grandmothers had migraine, my father has migraine and my mother has migraine.1979, Joan Didion, The White Album

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Forms of wrong-think

pluralwrong-thinks

Questions about wrong-think

What is wrong-think the alternative spelling of?
Wrong-think is the alternative spelling of wrongthink.

Words near wrong-think in the dictionary

  1. wrong-minded
  2. wrong-mindedly
  3. wrong-mindedness
  4. wrong-place-wrong-timing
  5. wrong-take
  6. wrong-think
  7. wrong-thinks
  8. wrong-timed
  9. wrong-way concurrencies
  10. wrong-way concurrency
  11. wrong-way driver

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