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spoon-fed

[spoon-fed] / ˈspunˌfɛd /
ADJECTIVE
spoiled
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He believes viewers should be active participants and not just have everything spoon-fed to them.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2024

At a scoop shop in downtown Manhattan, a large white poodle was spoon-fed what appeared to be vanilla ice cream.

From New York Times • May 16, 2024

Other images include Susan being spoon-fed by her young granddaughter and her lying on her bed having forgotten how to dress herself.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2024

Klein confesses that it sometimes felt as if Wolf had fed Klein's ideas into a "bonkers blender" and then spoon-fed the resulting incoherent mishmash directly to Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon.

From Salon • Sep. 14, 2023

The man spoon-fed me broth with sweet corn mush until the fist unclenched just enough for me to rest, then he put it beside me on a flat rock.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline




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