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wrong-mindedly en · ADV

Etymology

From wrong-minded + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of wrongmindedly.
    • Much more sweeping were the reforms proposed by Sir Thomas Smith (1568), who understandably but wrong-mindedly wanted letter forms to be “pictures” of speech sounds, that is, to have an iconic relationship to the sounds. 2011, C.M. Millward, Mary Hayes, A Biography of the English Language, →ISBN, page 229:

Forms

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more wrong-mindedly Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most wrong-mindedly Degree=Sup lexicographic