indoctrinated

[ in-dok-truh-ney-tid ]

adjective

1. having been instructed in or imbued with a specific belief or point of view, especially one that is partisan or biased:

   We are fighting a well-trained, well-organized, and ideologically indoctrinated guerrilla army.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of indoctrinate ( def ).

Other Words From

• un·in·doc·tri·nat·ed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of indoctrinated¹

indoctrinate ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

She’s Catholic—always has been—and her father is a very indoctrinated Scientologist, and has been for quite a long time.

From The Daily Beast

The Revolutionary Guard works in collaboration with the Islamic Republic’s soft-power organizations to indoctrinate them with the clerical regime’s extremist Shia Islamist ideology.

From Time

The thing that was toughest for me to take was to see him indoctrinating his kids.

From Voice of San Diego

The airlines have indoctrinated us to accept a “steerage complex.”

From The Daily Beast

Significantly, we learn that Dontae never played football as a kid, and thus was never indoctrinated into its codes of valor.

From The Daily Beast

“My dad is really into football, so he indoctrinated me as a kid,” Ohanian says.

From The Daily Beast

But there has always been and there will always be a segment of society that chooses or is indoctrinated to ignore these rules.

From The Daily Beast

You have not been indoctrinated into unwanted-yet-inescapable tribal allegiances by your soccer-crazed countrymen.

From The Daily Beast

Whether it was by this sect that the Templars were indoctrinated must remain an open question.

From Project Gutenberg

The newcomers, in their first months in the older settlements, were speedily indoctrinated with anti-slavery sentiment.

From Project Gutenberg

The Saturnian spirits who visited Swedenborg were manifestly indoctrinated with these ideas.

From Project Gutenberg

George has been properly 'indoctrinated,' and, we must hope, will do credit to my instructions.

From Project Gutenberg

I was indoctrinated with the idea that there is a moral governance in the world, that God rules over the affairs of men.

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