oughtn't in English
contraction
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ought not.
The floor of the cafe seemed suddenly brilliant to me, the bright wood vivid in the artificial light - tho’ perhaps I oughtn't to have indulged in that espresso, not at 7.30-ish in the evening.
Use "oughtnt" in a sentence
Below are sample sentences containing the word "oughtnt" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "oughtnt", or refer to the context using the word "oughtnt" in the English Dictionary.
1. And maybe I oughtn't to.
2. Perhaps you oughtn't to generalize about that.
3. I oughtn't to do that, it's not ethical.
4. The guys are wondering, if we're gonna jump, oughtn't we call Air-Sea Rescue?
5. You oughtn't forget that 4 languages are spoken in Spain (Spanish languages) which are Castilian (Official
6. Good job too, a young thing like her oughtn't to be out late on a pestilential night like this.