Definition of WRONGHEADED

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a wrongheaded approach to dealing with the problem

Recent Examples on the Web Grogan, who found the document hasty and wrongheaded, launched a behind-the-scenes mutiny from Trump’s budget office, three former administration health officials told STAT. — Lev Facher, STAT, "How Joe Grogan, a former pharma lobbyist, upended Trump’s drug pricing agenda," 22 Oct. 2019 Of all the wrongheaded policies Trump and his Republican Party insist on pursuing, their stubborn denial of climate change is the most baffling — and the most obviously self-destructive. — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, "Robinson: Trump better know how to swim — sea-level rise may claim Mar-a-Lago," 18 Aug. 2019 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, "Trump, the Squad, and the “Standard Definition” of Racism," 16 July 2019 Despite its pervasiveness, this is a profoundly wrongheaded line of inquiry. — Matt Simon, WIRED, "Don't Ask How to Pay for Climate Change. Ask Who," 2 Aug. 2019 Many, if not most, wrongheaded bills continue to be pushed by their authors and advocates even when their deficiencies become obvious. — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, "Walters: Criticism kills California bill to nix reading teacher test," 14 July 2019 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, "Opinion: Breaking sacred seal of confession was a misguided effort," 12 July 2019 The Frick has chosen a somewhat wrongheaded way of presenting the sixteenth-century Italian painter Giovanni Battista Moroni. — Sanford Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, "Sanford Schwartz," 9 May 2019 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

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“Wrongheaded.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wrongheaded. Accessed 23 January 2020.