Definition of "ass-backwards" []

• Oriented backwards, particularly after a mishap. (adjective)
• Hopelessly misguided; having taken the utterly wrong choice. (adjective)
• Moving backwards, that is, rear end first. (adverb)
• In a hopelessly misguided manner. (adverb)

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• "I don't know about you, but it seems to me we've got our carbon policy ass-backwards."
• "On another occasion he described him as "an ass-backwards Sherlock Holmes"."
• "This is the most ass-backwards way of doing science that I have ever heard of."