misindoctrinate

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verb

To indoctrinate with an invalid ideology.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

verbmisindoctrinate (third-person singular simple present misindoctrinates, present participle misindoctrinating, simple past and past participle misindoctrinated)

present singular third person misindoctrinates · participle present misindoctrinating · participle past misindoctrinated · past misindoctrinated

  1. To indoctrinate with an invalid ideology.

    True, eventually these officers and men will leave the sea service. However, prior to that time they can and probably will do much harm by way of misinforming and misindoctrinating others—tomorrow's naval leaders are included in this group.

    1960, Naval Institute Proceedings - Volume 86, Issues 7-12, page 106
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    The following week, I wrote to the Vietnamese military attaché in Washington D.C. suggesting that he intervene with proper authorities to have the French liaison officer removed from the school's faculty for having misindoctrinated the elite of the American officers corps, the majority of whom would be seeing combat in Viet Nam.

    2001, Quang Thi Lâm, The Twenty-five Year Century, page 111

    It now rather unmistakably appears that pornocracy is the name that should be given to the Governments of both Great Britain and the United Sates of America in the twentieth century - and before - but the latest century will do for the enlightenment of the misindoctrinated young men and women of today.

    2017, Rosine de Bounevialle, The Candour A.B.C. of Politics, page 87

Origin

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