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wrong-headed

a. (alternative form of wrongheaded English)

Usage examples of "wrong-headed".

He had a sudden memory of the dinner at the Beau Rivage, after his impetuous and wrong-headed proposal.

How infinitely is thy puddle-headed, rattle-headed, wrong-headed, round-headed slave indebted to thy supereminent goodness, that from the luminous path of thy own right-lined rectitude, thou lookest benignly down on an erring wretch, of whom the zig-zag wanderings defy all the powers of calculation, from the simple copulation of units, up to the hidden mysteries of fluxions!

In conventional terms, some satire would be considered decidedly immoral, designed to violate the norms of a moral code it regards as restrictive or wrong-headed.

So far did he carry his black despisal, I feared it was wrong-headed as his former optimism.

They had been so unhappy, such muddlers, so wrong-headed, it seemed to her.