Antonyms for dictateddic·tat·ed

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1. determined, dictated, setadjective

   determined or decided upon as by an authority

   "date and place are already determined"; "the dictated terms of surrender"; "the time set for the launching"

   Antonyms:
   unsettled

   Synonyms:
   set(p), set, laid, compulsive, situated, located, placed, fit(p), hardened, primed(p), determined, fixed, driven, rigid

How to use dictated in a sentence?

1. Peter MacKinnon:

   We have to do our best to try to pick the right cases and families to look at and you hope you don't miss something. ... Child safety wasn't always first and foremost in every workers mind. The policies were dictated that we are going to look at the cases a little different, we need to get back to looking at every case through a protective lens.

2. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy:

   When the need for more pandemic relief was obvious, did we deliver a timely lifeline America needed? Or did we say nothing was better than something until politics dictated our actions? when unrest spilled into the cities and communities across the country, did we deliver safety that Americans wanted or did we let calls to defund the police, intimidate us from protecting life, liberty and property?

3. Jane Austen, Mansfield Park:

   Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

4. Jane Austen:

   Oh do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

5. Harold Bornstein:

   He dictated that whole letter. I didn't write that letter.

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