Ought is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for OUGHT in dictionary:

VERB:
• to owe
• used to indicate a desirable or expected state
• used to give or ask for advice
• used to indicate something that is probable
• have an obligation
• See Aught.
• used to indicate duty or correctness, typically when criticizing someone's actions
PREPOSITION:
• Was or were under obligation to pay; owed.
• Owned; possessed.
• To be bound in duty or by moral obligation.
• To be necessary, fit, becoming, or expedient; to behoove; -- in this sense formerly sometimes used impersonally or without a subject expressed.
NOUN:
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Words related to OUGHT

oughted12 oughting13 oughts10 owe6

Words that contain OUGHT

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How to use OUGHT in a sentence

• I think there ought to be any amount of technique, and personality, and magnetism, and temperament.
• I think, my friend, somebody ought to go to Savannah to inquire into this business.
• They quite agreed that there ought to be a guard, but it must be half English and half French, and to this we at once agreed.
• You and your colleague, O Dolabella, ought not, indeed, to be angry with me for speaking in defence of the republic.
• His absence from afternoon service had been alluded to, and it had been suggested to him that he ought sometimes to be more careful as to his language.
• Pipchin, instead of being behind his peers, my son ought to be before them, far before them.
• But this was a state of things which the good sense of Mark told him could not, and ought not to last.
• Once there we ought to be safe, but we ought to have a day or two in hand on arrival and may have difficulty with following the tracks.
• If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.
• A year in Germany ought to cure any sensible workingman of the notion that the state is a better guardian of his purse and his powers than he is himself.
• The result was that he had torn up a letter, and a copy of the reply, which ought to have been set aside as worthy of preservation.
• Not only was he glad that she should have praise, but he was convinced that it ought to be hers.
• They have no idea of what they ought to do or even of what they want to do.
• I think that a useless struggle, which makes your mother unhappy, ought to be given over.
• I thought we ought to put ourselves right in the first place, and then we could insist that they should do right in the next place.
• Keith became quite familiar with it, but he always remained by the door, and he always felt that he ought not to be there.
• Russell seems to me to fall conspicuously and unaccountably short of being what, by his own showing, a great philosopher ought to be.
• The extensive enlargement of our church work, which ought to begin at once, can scarcely be made successful without this.
• It does not appear that these are in the state in which they ought to be, to render it safe to co-operate with them.
• But meantime your mother ought to take her in charge and not leave her here alone.
• But this business of illness has just come and touched me on the raw, you see! You ought not to be ill.
• A woman who bears a child ought surely to have the strength to do it.
• You ought to get fifteen dollars out of it, anyhow.
• For then he ought to have suffered often from the beginning of the world.
• Hazlitt says it ought to be read by every lover of Hogarth and English genius.

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