[...] it was beyond their hope to indoctrinate Marxism-Leninism-Mao's "thought" into the mind of young generation. The young generation does not care about Communism.
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Indoctrinate
Synonyms for "indoctrinate" (29 found)
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21 translations across 15 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- adoctrinar verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 向……灌輸 /向……灌输 verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
- 洗腦 /洗脑 verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
Czech
1 entries- indoktrinovat verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
Dutch
1 entries- indoctrineren verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
Finnish
2 entries- aivopestä verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
- indoktrinoida verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
French
1 entries- endoctriner verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
Galician
1 entries- adoutrinar verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
German
1 entries- indoktrinieren verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
Italian
1 entries- addottrinare verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
Latin
2 entries- addoctrino verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
- indoctrino verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
Polish
1 entries- indoktrynować verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
Portuguese
2 entries- doutrinar verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
- endoutrinar verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
Romanian
1 entries- îndoctrina verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
Spanish
3 entries- adoctrinar verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
- doctrinar verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
- indoctrinar verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
Swedish
1 entries- indoktrinera verb (teach with a biased or one-sided ideology)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
[They] attempt to further indoctrinate Christian values into local communities by first distorting the substance of the traditional rituals and then imputing another set of values to them.
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She […] felt uncomfortable that she was to her mind 'pushing Christian values'. Apparently lurking beneath her discomfort was a sense that she was required to indoctrinate Christian values in a search for conformity rather than teaching to promote autonomy, which she regarded as her professional commitment.
Source: wiktionary
Further still, there were other little boys and girls whose parents DID know about the history [of the show promoting racism] who may have surely taken the time to infuse and indoctrinate it into the next generation.
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