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wrongminded

wrongminded adjective: mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning.

Adjective

wrongminded (comparative more wrongminded, superlative most wrongminded)

  1. Mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning.
    • The wrongminded notion of the feminist movement which implied it was anti-male carried with it the wrongminded assumption that all female space would necessarily be an environment where patriarchy and sexist thinking would be absent.2013, Margaret Helen Hobbs, Carla Rice, Gender and Women's Studies in Canada: Critical Terrain, →ISBN, page 13
  2. Bad, corrupt, evil; dwelling on or embracing evil.
    • It is no answer to protest that the defense may become a “false and diversionary stratagem[ ], or that “wrongminded individuals [could] contrive” an “infinite number of mistake of law defenses”; for it is the very business of the courts to separate the true claims from the false.2014, Markus Dubber, Tatjana Hörnle, Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach, →ISBN, page 272

Forms of wrongminded

comparativemore wrongminded
superlativemost wrongminded
alternative formwrong-minded

Origin of wrongminded

From wrong + minded.

Words formed from wrongminded

Questions about wrongminded

What does wrongminded mean?
Wrongminded means mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning.
What part of speech is wrongminded?
Wrongminded is an adjective.

Words near wrongminded in the dictionary

  1. wrongish
  2. wrongless
  3. wronglessly
  4. wrongly
  5. wrongmaking
  6. wrongminded
  7. wrongmindedly
  8. wrongmindedness
  9. wrongness
  10. wrongnesses
  11. wrongo

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