misindoctrinate
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To indoctrinate with an invalid ideology.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
From mis- + indoctrinate.