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And then reverse the wrongheaded and potentially dangerous hiring procedures implemented by an Obama administration obsessed with racial balance. — Jason L. Riley, WSJ, "The Airport Control Tower Is No Place for Racial Redress," 5 June 2018 Experience, however, suggests that this quest for solutions is most of the time wrongheaded. — Thanassis Cambanis, BostonGlobe.com, "Stop trying to fix everything," 16 Feb. 2018 Your idea that no one should apologize for anything is wrongheaded. — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, "Overseas lover pressures woman for quick marriage," 17 June 2018 Ideas built on a wrongheaded understanding of heredity had devastating consequences. — Jennifer Raff, New York Times, "In an Age of Gene Editing and Surrogacy, What Does Heredity Mean?," 31 May 2018 Officials from the three trading partners – among Washington's closest allies for decades – have dismissed the idea that their shipments to American customers endanger the United States – and some prominent Republicans attacked it as wrongheaded. — Anchorage Daily News, "Mexico, Canada, Europe retaliate against Trump’s metal tariffs," 31 May 2018 Conservatives like to paint this as some kind of fascistic cultural hegemony that stifles speech, which is incredibly wrongheaded and shortsighted. — Bijan Stephen, GQ, "The Defiant Anthems of Chvrches," 21 May 2018 USA TODAY Sports Caster Semenya is a woman who is too much a man, according to new wrongheaded rules in track and field. — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, "Is this woman too much a man? Track’s powers that be think so," 8 May 2018 In both, Kanye is quietly insightful and brashly ignorant, as wrongheaded as his critics have said and more lucid than he's given credit for. — Joshua Rivera, GQ, "Kanye West Is Giving His Most Radical Performance Yet," 1 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'wrongheaded.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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