misindoctrinate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mis- +‎ indoctrinate

Verb[edit]

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

  1. To indoctrinate with an invalid ideology.
    • 1960, Naval Institute Proceedings - Volume 86, Issues 7-12, page 106:
      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.
    • 2001, Quang Thi Lâm, The Twenty-five Year Century, page 111:
      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.
    • 2017, Rosine de Bounevialle, The Candour A.B.C. of Politics, page 87:
      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.