wrong-mindedly
See also: wrongmindedly
English
Etymology
wrong-minded + -ly
Adverb
wrong-mindedly (comparative more wrong-mindedly, superlative most wrong-mindedly)
- Alternative form of wrongmindedly
- 2011, C.M. Millward & Mary Hayes, A Biography of the English Language, →ISBN, page 229:
- 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.
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