Wrongminded
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Wrongminded is an adjective meaning Mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning.
Meaning
Mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning.
More Meanings
- 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.
Word Forms
- wrong-minded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include wrong-minded, misminded, erroneous, wrong-headed, wrongheaded, mistaken.
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