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spoon-fed

[spoon-fed] / ˈspunˌfɛd /
ADJECTIVE
spoiled
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"I spoon-fed the police," she explains with exasperation as she shows us print-outs of text messages and voicemails.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025

Sometimes, somebody comes on and they’re not an actor and are spoon-fed.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 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

One of them, Shamim Salim, 26, was being spoon-fed soup by a well-wisher.

From Reuters • Apr. 26, 2023

The blond-haired girl who’d spoon-fed me popcorn-flavored pudding was leaning on the porch rail next to them.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan




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