paternalistically
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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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
In other words, readers are grown-ups and deserve to be treated as such, not paternalistically protected from information that might upset them.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 11, 2017
This distinction is enforced only by the pieties of good-government advocates who, in the wake of the 1980 episode, paternalistically argued that voters cannot be trusted with live information.
From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2016
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 Les Collins
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