inculcate
verb (used with object)
to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon orin ).
have inculcated
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present perfectof inculcate.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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It’s a grisly, funny ritual in which they reveal the self-disgust that their menial jobs have inculcated in them.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026
They have inculcated on the Japanese people through all the ages, not only the necessity, but the advisability of doing good.
From The Empire of the East by H. B. (Helen Barrett) Montgomery
But they have done more—they have inculcated a healthy moral.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 20, 1890 by Various
This Chapter of Canonesses, which ought to have inculcated the mystic life, was one of those hybrid institutions not altogether white nor quite black, a cross between profane piety and pious laity.
From The Cathedral by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
She might have inculcated in this new generation a love for the best ideals of both races.
From The Shadow of the Past by F.E. Mills Young
