What does wrongminded mean?
Wrongminded means Mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning..
Wrongminded
Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Meaning
Mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning..
Definitions by Sense
- Mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning.
- Bad, corrupt, evil; dwelling on or embracing evil.
Example Sentences
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.
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.
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- more wrongminded
- most wrongminded
- wrong-minded
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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.
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