wrong-mindedly
See also: wrongmindedly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From wrong-minded + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]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.