wrongminded

comparative more wrongminded · superlative most wrongminded · alternative wrong-minded

1. Mistaken; characterized by faulty reasoning.

   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.

   2013, Margaret Helen Hobbs, Carla Rice, Gender and Women's Studies in Canada: Critical Terrain, →ISBN, page 13

2. Bad, corrupt, evil; dwelling on or embracing evil.

   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.

   2014, Markus Dubber, Tatjana Hörnle, Criminal Law: A Comparative Approach, →ISBN, page 272