paternalistically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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I wondered: Instead of paternalistically enjoining Yolande to remain focused on her studies, what if Du Bois had engaged his teenage daughter as a young intellectual?
From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023
It is important to Mr. Murillo that the canvases “weren’t treated paternalistically as children’s drawing,” said Clara Dublanc, a co-director of Frequencies Institute, as the nonprofit project, a work in progress, is known.
From New York Times • Dec. 10, 2021
Zimmer rather paternalistically asked Jefferson to promise to practice and study hard, as if there were any question about the effort and precision the Vikings would get from their star receiver.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 17, 2021
“When should we as a society paternalistically decide that the risk of significant physical injury is simply too great even for eager and willing participants?”
From Slate • Sep. 4, 2018
The Hollywood Mind is definitely a real thing, a vicious thing, a blank thing, that paternalistically insists It knows what the public wants.
From Question of Comfort by Collins, Les
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