wrong-mindedly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.24 in modern English

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"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."

From wrong-minded + -ly.

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

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