How to Use wrongheaded in a Sentence

wrongheaded

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  • And the court itself could put that wrongheaded notion to rest in a hot minute.
    — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 5 Oct. 2017
  • But that doesn't change the truth about our wrongheaded approach to dealing with the problem.
    — Tim Morris, NOLA.com, 13 June 2017
  • Larson replied, as though comparing one year of costs to eight years was not wrongheaded on its face.
    — Emily Atkin, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
  • But as wrongheaded as the Trump-Kelly interpretation of the war is, the men are products of their time.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
  • In some seabirds, researchers are finding that sticking blindly to monogamy can be just as wrongheaded.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2017
  • But at the same time, the impeachment is a wrongheaded, partisan notion.
    — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2021
  • Your idea that no one should apologize for anything is wrongheaded.
    — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2018
  • Bizarre and wrongheaded statements are protected by the First Amendment just as cogent and thoughtful ones are.
    — Ronald Sullivan, The Conversation, 9 May 2022
  • The tapes serve as a fact check for historians, showing the unsightly side of Kissinger: craven, wrongheaded, paranoid.
    — John A. Farrell, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
  • Which makes Trump’s wrongheaded inaction right now all the more frustrating.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 10 July 2017
  • This is not to say tariffs are inherently wrongheaded, Kennedy says.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 9 Oct. 2019
  • These restaurants and many others shatter the wrongheaded notion that Mexican food should be cheap.
    — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2021
  • But these efforts to create warriors out of teachers as a means of addressing school shootings are wrongheaded.
    — Tyler Bonin, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2018
  • Still, these things need to be debated seriously, and wrongheaded actions and words shouldn’t keep us from doing that.
    — Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Vince’s wrongheaded recommendations come from having her heart in the right place.
    — J. R. McNeill, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
  • But Purcell apologized Tuesday on her blog, and many view her piece as more wrongheaded (and self-involved) than mean-spirited.
    — Nara Schoenbwerg, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • A few details, at least after only one viewing, seem wrongheaded.
    — Alastair MacAulay, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2016
  • At that point, many birthers will still cling to their beliefs--but their wrongheaded view, much like the view that cigarettes don't cause lung cancer, will no longer trouble serious discourse.
    — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2011
  • The logo is referenced as a way to illustrate the difference between fact and opinion and how strong opinions often feel like facts and lead to a lot of wrongheaded debates.
    — Jon Fobes, cleveland.com, 17 July 2017
  • Any cracks in the system of child safety need to be filled, but putting an intended crack into the sacred seal of confession is simply wrongheaded and misguided.
    — Thomas G. Plante, The Mercury News, 12 July 2019
  • Perhaps Lawrence misspoke or meant this was Hollywood's wrongheaded way of thinking.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Its main point was that Amazon was the beneficiary of a wrongheaded approach to the law by antitrust regulators in recent years.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
  • There’s a lot of freedom in that, because so often things that are illogical and inefficient and wrongheaded and pointless and why do people have to be like that, anyway . .
    — Robin Abrahams, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • As an aside, some pundits are going around claiming that self-driving cars will be uncrashable, which is pure nonsense and an outrageous and wrongheaded thing to say, see my coverage at the link here.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Aug. 2022
  • There persists a wrongheaded and entrenched wisdom among politicians and élite journalists that to call something racist is to violate etiquette.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 16 July 2019
  • The problem is not just that most statues impart incomplete or wrongheaded history lessons.
    — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 30 June 2021
  • But the new order retains the wrongheaded focus on countries that haven’t been the classic exporters of terrorists killing Americans on American soil.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2017
  • Experience, however, suggests that this quest for solutions is most of the time wrongheaded.
    — Thanassis Cambanis, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2018
  • All sides are discovering that federal lands, run well, are neither a fiefdom of Washington nor a bulwark against wrongheaded cowherds.
    — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2017
  • Supporters of marijuana legalization used the film to highlight wrongheaded ideas about the crop.
    — Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2022

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