Wrongminded
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning.
"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."
- 2 Bad, corrupt, evil; dwelling on or embracing evil.
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From wrong + minded.
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