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wrong-headed en · ADJ
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of wrongheaded.
Hardy was irritated for a moment, and then was filled with ruth for the poor wrong-headed youngster who was heaping up coals of fire for his own head.
1859–1861, [Thomas Hughes], “The Storm Rages”, in Tom Brown at Oxford: […], part 1st, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1861, →OCLC, page 258:There were knee-jerk demands from trade unions for immediate withdrawal of all HSTs; these were wrong-headed.
2022 March 23, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Drains, trains and Control”, in RAIL, number 953, page 3:
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