spoon-fed

[ spoon-fed ]

/ ˈspunˌfɛd /

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adjective

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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Origin of spoon-fed

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby spoon-fed

spoon bow, spoon bread, spoondrift, spoonerism, spooney, spoon-fed, spoon-feed, spoonful, spoon hook, spoon nail, spoon theory

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|DAILY BEAST
Drudge 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|DAILY BEAST
Do American movie-going audiences in 2012 really need to be spoon-fed a justification for the killing of Osama bin Laden?
Is Zero Dark Thirty Propaganda?|Michael Tomasky|December 10, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The three reporters who worked on the Times stories have denied the information was spoon fed to them from the White House.
Obama on National Security Leaks: It Wasn’t Me|Daniel Stone|June 8, 2012|DAILY BEAST

Severson answers that now with her engaging debut memoir, Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life.
A Life in Food|John Douglas Marshall|May 28, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Don't aim to go through life spoon-fed; don't aim to get a soft seat.
Atlantic Classics|Various
At times he would partake only of liquid nourishment, then again would have to be spoon-fed.
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry|Bernard Glueck
Minds at first must be spoon-fed with truth, as babes with milk; a boy we bid feed himself, or starve.
The Browning Cyclopdia|Edward Berdoe
She did not soil any more, but she sometimes drooled and had to be spoon-fed.
Benign Stupors|August Hoch
It was difficult to get her to eat, and she had to be spoon-fed.
Benign Stupors|August Hoch

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