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oughtn't
[ awt-nt ]
- contraction of ought not.
Usage Note
Example Sentences
We canât look away â and we oughtnât, as she argued through the public display of her sonâs body.
A recent article in the Nation highlighted changing attitudes on the political left of center: âCeding central cities to homeless encampments,â it said, âoughtnât to have become the default in cities up and down the West Coast.â
âHe oughtnât be relieved of liability on the transparently false assertion that he believed his own self-serving fiction,â Bowman told me.
Which I suppose just goes to show that one oughtnât to leap to conclusions about what people mean, at least not without further conversation.
âYou oughtnât to be seen till the last minute, child.â
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