wrong-mindedly

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English

Etymology

wrong-minded +‎ -ly

Adverb

wrong-mindedly (comparative more wrong-mindedly, superlative most wrong-mindedly)

  1. 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.