How to Use wrongheaded in a Sentence

wrongheaded

adjective

• And the court itself could put that wrongheaded notion to rest in a hot minute.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 5 Oct. 2017
• At best, such ideas come across as quaint; at worst, dangerous or plain wrongheaded.
  — Big Think, 28 Oct. 2025
• Larson replied, as though comparing one year of costs to eight years was not wrongheaded on its face.
  — Emily Atkin, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
• But that doesn't change the truth about our wrongheaded approach to dealing with the problem.
  — Tim Morris, NOLA.com, 13 June 2017
• Your idea that no one should apologize for anything is wrongheaded.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 17 June 2018
• In some seabirds, researchers are finding that sticking blindly to monogamy can be just as wrongheaded.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 6 Feb. 2017
• But at the same time, the impeachment is a wrongheaded, partisan notion.
  — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2021
• Vince’s wrongheaded recommendations come from having her heart in the right place.
  — J. R. McNeill, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2022
• This is not to say tariffs are inherently wrongheaded, Kennedy says.
  — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 9 Oct. 2019
• But these efforts to create warriors out of teachers as a means of addressing school shootings are wrongheaded.
  — Tyler Bonin, The Atlantic, 3 Mar. 2018
• Still, these things need to be debated seriously, and wrongheaded actions and words shouldn’t keep us from doing that.
  — Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 28 Jan. 2018
• If civil unity matters, why risk infection from wrongheaded ideas?
  — L. Martin Nussbaum, National Review, 18 Sep. 2017
• These restaurants and many others shatter the wrongheaded notion that Mexican food should be cheap.
  — Andi Berlin, The Arizona Republic, 7 July 2021
• The problem is not just that most statues impart incomplete or wrongheaded history lessons.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 30 June 2021
• Bizarre and wrongheaded statements are protected by the First Amendment just as cogent and thoughtful ones are.
  — Ronald Sullivan, The Conversation, 9 May 2022
• Perhaps Lawrence misspoke or meant this was Hollywood's wrongheaded way of thinking.
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 7 Dec. 2022
• Experience, however, suggests that this quest for solutions is most of the time wrongheaded.
  — Thanassis Cambanis, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• 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
• And, above them, by a Supreme Court all too ready to leave even a wrongheaded conservative decision in place long enough to do real damage.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
• 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, 16 July 2019
• Such an effort in this tight residential real estate market is not so easily dismissed as wrongheaded.
  — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 8 Jan. 2026
• At that point, many birthers will still cling to their beliefs--but their wrongheaded view, much like the view that cigarettes don't cause lung cancer, will no longer trouble serious discourse.
  — Chris Mooney, Discover Magazine, 24 Jan. 2011
• But Purcell apologized Tuesday on her blog, and many view her piece as more wrongheaded (and self-involved) than mean-spirited.
  — Nara Schoenbwerg, chicagotribune.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Supporters of marijuana legalization used the film to highlight wrongheaded ideas about the crop.
  — Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2022
• 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, 14 July 2019
• The logo is referenced as a way to illustrate the difference between fact and opinion and how strong opinions often feel like facts and lead to a lot of wrongheaded debates.
  — Jon Fobes, cleveland.com, 17 July 2017
• All sides are discovering that federal lands, run well, are neither a fiefdom of Washington nor a bulwark against wrongheaded cowherds.
  — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 May 2017
• 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
• Its main point was that Amazon was the beneficiary of a wrongheaded approach to the law by antitrust regulators in recent years.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
• 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, 1 May 2018