Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
spoonfeed .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun feeding someone (as a baby) from a spoon
- noun teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought
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Examples
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It's not really "spoonfeeding" if you simply answer a question that you've been bringing up again and again and again.
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It's not really "spoonfeeding" if you simply answer a question that you've been bringing up again and again and again.
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Obama quickly stepped in, and muttered an ignorant remark (as usual, when his telemprompter isn't spoonfeeding him) ....
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This is what this country deserves after electing and supporting someone who cannot get through a complete sentence without a teleprompter or some sort of spoonfeeding .... pathetic .... mike, texas
Republican senator says no filibuster attempt against Sotomayor 2009
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I wonder if Hospice makes house calls for a nation; because the liberals have sentenced our once great nation to a slow death ... via taxation, control, and spoonfeeding lazy minorities and illegal aliens ..... all to have votes!
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D MaskellCorbridgeNorthumberlandWhile the importance of vocational courses should be recognised, rigorous academic qualifications also have a part to play in undoing the damage that a relentless diet of spoonfeeding has wreaked on young minds.
Education: let's celebrate both academic and vocational learning | the big issue 2012
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Coming into a postdoc where my mentors were used to spoonfeeding the mildly retarded postdocs they'd had in the past was quite a shock for everyone concerned but they slowly came around to the realization that not all postdocs are stupid!
No Guts, No Glory Candid Engineer 2008
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Why aren't people paying attention to the fact that the mainstream media is spoonfeeding us baloney straight from the Clinton campaign?
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But, I'm tired of the chinese spoonfeeding me their pride of being the 'people's republic!' mike
Confucius Movie Trailer #2, Starring Chow Yun Fat | /Film 2010
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Bob suddenly found himself constructing pens, cages, barriers, buying feed, clearing duck waste, spoonfeeding at mealtime.
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