0 past participle, past simple of spoon-feed --
1 to feed a baby or other person using a spoon --
2 to give someone so much help or information that that person does not need to try himself or herself: --
They do not want to be spoon-fed.
We should see to it that they are not spoon-fed by the people of this country, who have troubles of their own.
Instead of being spoon-fed by teachers, they are helped to acquire habits of individual study in preparation for further or higher education.
If there is any industry which has been spoon-fed in this country during the last eight or 10 years it is agriculture.
The public—the electorate—the people who sent us here—deserve more than to be spoon-fed a cocktail of headline-grabbing feel-good stories.
I would rather suggest that trade and industry of the country object to be spoon-fed by proposals of this character.
If people need to be spoon-fed their ballot papers, they are not motivated to make a choice of who they want to vote for.
Now in connection with better standardisation it has lost its spoon-fed character, and grading stations have been seeking registration as co-operative societies.
