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

But I was a Republican, and I had been indoctrinated in all the Republican rhetoric about how Hillary was the devil and she was terrible and we couldn't possibly have her in office.

From Salon

I’ve often joked I was the perfect age to be indoctrinated.

From BBC

Without these “indoctrinated boundaries,” as he calls them, he has the freedom to find — or, in the case of “Chimp Crazy,” provoke — dramatic on-screen conflicts and satisfying resolutions that traditional documentarians might not.

From Los Angeles Times

"There is an agenda ... where the homosexual viewpoint is being — students are being indoctrinated," he told Fox News' Bill O'Reilly in 2006.

From Salon

Last year more than 50 Conservative MPs wrote to the prime minister claiming children were being "indoctrinated with radical and unevidenced ideologies about sex and gender".

From BBC