English

Alternative forms

• wrong-minded

Adjective

wrongminded ‎(comparative more wrongminded, superlative most wrongminded)

1. Mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning.
   • 2013, Margaret Helen Hobbs ‎& Carla Rice, Gender and Women's Studies in Canada: Critical Terrain, ISBN 0889614849, page 13:

     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.
   • 2014, Markus Dubber & ‎Tatjana Hörnle, Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach, ISBN 0191030678, page 272:

     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.