brainwashed
- adjective
- /ˈbreɪnˌwɑʃt/
- It was alarming to see how the cult had brainwashed its members, convincing them to abandon their families.
Like you, you're brainwashed to do these things.
- Like you, you're brainwashed to do these things.
- This is the what we call the brainwashed child.
- And David Jewell knew just how totally brainwashed the people were in that compound.
- And, and you are trying, but you're so, as you say, brainwashed by this guy.
- But there's a point to which can you be that brainwashed?
- They have hugest audience numbers and they are still not completely brainwashed.
- And what we see now, now we're coming out is that people are still psychologically brainwashed into the old thinking.
- Like, yeah, brainwashed into it being a certain way.
- And I would argue that they're just brainwashed, you know, dollars.
- You just hurt your knee, right And you're like again, brainwashed because you got to get back.
- And I thought, Oh my God, this is just a lot of brainwashed people.
- Maybe she did, but right was baby brainwashed.
- They're completely brainwashed at all and they care.
- I'm not trying to come at you and make you feel stupid or brainwashed.
- An unhinged protester speaking with our pals up at Rebel News insisting listen to this brainwashed idiot.
Examples
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So let me show you how we, at least in America, got brainwashed by milk.
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I think we're all just brainwashed by Hollywood and like all the gossip magazines.
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Like, yeah, brainwashed into it being a certain way.
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And I thought, Oh my God, this is just a lot of brainwashed people.
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Yes, our children are being brainwashed with the radical ideology of Fair.
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Young people were brainwashed and they were pressured.
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And what we see now, now we're coming out is that people are still psychologically brainwashed into the old thinking.
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People have been so brainwashed, like Pavlovian dogs chasing the almighty dollar.
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And so when you, even if you don't know that you've been brainwashed into what's been taught to us in school, you have been.
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Last week we got this comment saying I love this podcast and you guys but it's weird watching men and how they've been brainwashed their whole life by the media.
Antonyms
Forming your own opinions without following people in power, especially about religion
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Etymology
The word brainwashed joins brain and wash and was borrowed from the Chinese phrase xǐnǎo, which means 'wash brain'. So, to be brainwashed is to have your beliefs forced to change by strong pressure or constant messages.