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See also: wrong-minded
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[edit]wrongminded (comparative more wrongminded, superlative most wrongminded)
- Mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning.
- 2013, Margaret Helen Hobbs, Carla Rice, Gender and Women's Studies in Canada: Critical Terrain, →ISBN, 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.
- Bad, corrupt, evil; dwelling on or embracing evil.
- 2014, Markus Dubber, Tatjana Hörnle, Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach, →ISBN, 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.