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UK
/bɹˈeɪnwɒʃɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈbɹeɪnˌwɑʃɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈbɹeɪnˌwɑʃɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs
How To Use brainwashing In A Sentence
- I am a highly educated, successful career woman who finally realized that we women are getting ripped off by the current culture and the educational establishment who is brainwashing us into a life of hectic, unfulfilling work in stuffy cubicles working long, stressful hours to earn enough so that we can "relax" on a beach somewhere. Get in on Life...
- And let me inform you, Joe, that there are far swifter and more effective means than brainwashing to get what we want out of you. THE TRAIL OF TERROR (THE THREE INVESTIGATORS MYSTERIES NO 39)
- Who agreed to these intrusive screens brainwashing us day after day?
- So brainwashing became a pejorative, and the phrase ‘you've been brainwashed,’ a term of reproach, as if the prisoner had become addlebrained, or a simpleton, during his captivity.
- Those who still think that President Obama is trying to "brainwash" their children in his speech tomorrow have no doubt received their own share of brainwashing from Limbaugh, Beck, and their ilk. Florida GOP chair: WH 'redid the lesson plans'
- In the case of hostages and prisoners of war, numerous attempts to find supposed personality defects that predisposed captives to "brainwashing' have yielded few consistent results. Trauma and Recovery
- But even though we've been inundated with all these waves of social engineering-that's what they call brainwashing nowadays-I'm nevertheless optimistic that, if we succeed in building up a force in Germany that reminds people about Germany's culture in science and art, that the German people is nevertheless a people with enormous potential. LaRouche's Latest
- I hated how it was brainwashing a generation of bright and well-intentioned children, transforming them into a ghettoized and incurious suburban middle-class.
- In the case of hostages and prisoners of war, numerous attempts to find supposed personality defects that predisposed captives to "brainwashing' have yielded few consistent results. Trauma and Recovery
- He agreed the term brainwashing can be used in two different senses, involving an element of physical force and no such physical element. Professor says Scientology church tried to isolate him