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- noun
Agent noun ofbrainwash ; one who brainwashes.
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Examples
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The excesses of narcissists never fail to amaze me, and Chua is a master -- a master manipulator and brainwasher.
Elizabeth Benedict: Sarah Palin and the Tiger Mom Elizabeth Benedict 2011
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The excesses of narcissists never fail to amaze me, and Chua is a master -- a master manipulator and brainwasher.
Elizabeth Benedict: Sarah Palin and the Tiger Mom Elizabeth Benedict 2011
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A skilled user would have much more power than any hypnotist or "Manchurian Candidate" brainwasher because the target would be convinced it was his/her own idea and not repeat statements that made him sound like a Zombie.
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The whole Sesame Street gang sing an annoying brainwasher of a song.
Sesame Street - Season 6 Episode 666 (1974) X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut 2010
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The whole Sesame Street gang sing an annoying brainwasher of a song.
Archive 2010-04-01 X-Y-Z-Cosmonaut 2010
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A skilled user would have much more power than any hypnotist or "Manchurian Candidate" brainwasher because the target would be convinced it was his/her own idea and not repeat statements that made him sound like a Zombie.
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I am now a brainwasher & spin doctor for the socialist dream.
It’s Official - We Have Gone Insane! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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In 2007, Danielle McGuire, a teacher at the New York prep school Horace Mann, discovered that some students, who happened to be children of school trustees, had put up a page on Facebook entitled “McGuire Survivors 2006,” portraying her as a witch and a liberal brainwasher.
The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009
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Faith is such a successful brainwasher in its own favor, especially a brainwasher of children, that it is hard to break its hold.
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According to the archbishop, “there is little room left for democracy” if the State becomes the “educator and brainwasher” of the populace and if it imposes on society a secularist concept of life, as if God and religious citizens who have another vision of life did not exist.
“Secularist mentality” of government a risk to democracy, warns Spanish archbishop Argent 2006
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