as in rebellious
having or showing opinions or ideas that are wrong
wrongheaded people I think he is taking a wrongheaded approach to dealing with the problem.
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Recent Examples of wrongheaded
Nearly 25 years later, North is just as bad as Ebert wrote, an astoundingly wrongheaded concept executed in the most mealymouthed, limp way possible.
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
At best, such ideas come across as quaint; at worst, dangerous or plain wrongheaded.
—Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
Ultimately, the laws are based on a dystopia and wrongheaded assumption that Americans firearms for their self-defense.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Or were the Arabs in Palestine done in again and again by inflexible, wrongheaded, venal, and corrupt leadership?
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
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Will Leitch, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2025
At best, such ideas come across as quaint; at worst, dangerous or plain wrongheaded.
—Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
Ultimately, the laws are based on a dystopia and wrongheaded assumption that Americans firearms for their self-defense.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Or were the Arabs in Palestine done in again and again by inflexible, wrongheaded, venal, and corrupt leadership?
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for wrongheaded
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wrongheaded
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The 8-episode first season charts the improbable ascent of Joe and Rose Kennedy and their nine children, including rebellious second son Jack, who struggles to escape the shadow of his golden boy older brother.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2026
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In a mountain resort, rebellious snowboarders uncover a nuclear conspiracy in a uranium mine.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary, how does your nonfiction development pipeline grow?—
Tony Maglio,
HollywoodReporter,
3 Mar. 2026
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His couplets—stitched together by a rhyme—typically saunter in contrary directions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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Not seeing the correlation between spending and winning, or between winning and bigger crowds, is willful head-in-the-sand stuff.—
Greg Cote
Updated March 27,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2026
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The willful Sun conjoins Saturn in your impactful sign, fusing courage with responsibility.—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
25 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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In mid-19th century Iran, painter Nowruz falls for a fearlessly defiant Roma fortune teller, sparking their desperate flight and a tragic saga echoing down generations, the synopsis runs.—
Elsa Keslassy,
Variety,
31 Mar. 2026
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Near the close of the No Kings rally in Lincolnwood on Saturday afternoon, the chants rang out from beneath the waving American flag with a defiant twist.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Across the Rockies and beyond, many of our favorite mountains were haunted by unseasonably warm spikes and stubborn weather patterns that shut out snow for weeks on end.—
Kristen Geil,
Outside,
31 Mar. 2026
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For stubborn blockages, a plumber’s snake can help break things loose.—
Lauren Jarvis-Gibson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
31 Mar. 2026
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Hoang models the potential sales of these drugs by using Johnson & Johnson's Spravato, an intranasal ketamine derivative first approved to address treatment-resistant depression in 2019 , as a case study.—
Davis Giangiulio,
CNBC,
29 Mar. 2026
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About 1 in 6 human infections tested in labs are resistant to antibiotics, contributing to over 4 million deaths a year.—
Jonathan Lambert,
NPR,
27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Pitches that just barely graze the rigid outer edge of the strike zone prompted questions about how infinitesimally accurate the HawkEye technology that underpins ABS can be.—
Hannah Keyser,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2026
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The film’s surplus of action and chase scenes follows the same rigid formula of swooping camera movements and game power-up deus ex machinas that no sequence ever proves particularly exciting.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
31 Mar. 2026
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In a message Monday on X, Sánchez said that so far there were no signs indicating that the plane was attacked by rebel groups that operate near Puerto Leguizamo.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
24 Mar. 2026
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Petro, a leftist who was a member of a rebel group in his youth, has attempted to stage peace talks with Colombia’s remaining rebel groups under a strategy known as total peace.—
Manuel Rueda,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Mar. 2026
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“Wrongheaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wrongheaded. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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