spoon-fed
fed with a spoon.
treated with excessive solicitude; pampered.
given no opportunity to act or think for oneself: Having always been spoon-fed, I couldn't meet the challenge of college.
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How to use spoon-fed in a sentence
The conclusions of the advisory report were spoon-fed to a friendly group of Japanese political reporters two days ago.
Japanese Women Tell Their Men They Have to Choose Between Love and War | Jake Adelstein, Angela Erika Kubo | May 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDrudge simply “reported” on that fact—or rather was spoon-fed it by disgruntled internal sources.
Julian Assange Loves Rand Paul and His ‘Very Principled Positions’ | Michael Tomasky | August 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTDo American movie-going audiences in 2012 really need to be spoon-fed a justification for the killing of Osama bin Laden?
The three reporters who worked on the Times stories have denied the information was spoon fed to them from the White House.
Severson answers that now with her engaging debut memoir, Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life.
Don't aim to go through life spoon-fed; don't aim to get a soft seat.
Atlantic Classics | VariousAt times he would partake only of liquid nourishment, then again would have to be spoon-fed.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry | Bernard GlueckMinds at first must be spoon-fed with truth, as babes with milk; a boy we bid feed himself, or starve.
The Browning Cyclopdia | Edward BerdoeShe did not soil any more, but she sometimes drooled and had to be spoon-fed.
Benign Stupors | August HochIt was difficult to get her to eat, and she had to be spoon-fed.
Benign Stupors | August Hoch
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