spoon-feed
Example Sentences
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“There’s such pressure to spoon-feed information in the streamer world because there’s a terror that if someone in the audience is slightly confused, they will quit watching,” says Somerville.
From Los Angeles Times • May 25, 2022
"I wanted someone to spoon-feed me information in a format that was easy."
From BBC • Nov. 17, 2021
Her Little Sisters of the Sick Poor are prime examples, as the name suggests: They spoon-feed the toothless, comfort the grieving, scrub floors, clean wounds, change diapers, empty bedpans.
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2021
One of the things I most admire about “The Ingenious Language” is that it doesn’t spoon-feed the reader.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 2, 2020
We must spoon-feed it, and nice nights that will give me!
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 by Chambers, William
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
