Sentence examples for infantilize from inspiring English sources
The word 'infantilize' is a correct and usable word in written English
You would use it to describe the process of treating someone or something as if they were a child, for example: "The teacher infantilized the students by giving them coloring books as a reward."
verb
To reduce (a person) to the state or status of an infant.
The voices licensed to follow the event seem to have joined together in a campaign to infantilize the public.
The Morlands infantilize their daughter both in speech — she is her father's "hoyden" or "gosling" — and in action.
"Oh, I am not trying to infantilize your mother.
He would rather encourage settlers and entrepreneurs at the grass-roots level — and make them learn how to cope with those impediments themselves — than run the risk that aid might infantilize its recipient.
MacFarquhar points out that one feminist critique of gender bias in the treatment of violence is that it can "infantilize" women: "In supposing that a woman can't be truly responsible for her violent acts, we are treating her as if she was a child".
As aid workers grow frustrated by nonfunctioning Afghan bureaucracies, they build their own parallel ones that, in turn, take responsibility from and infantilize the Afghan agencies that are going to have to administer the country in the long run.
As Feinberg noted, most societies try to find a reasonable balance between extreme paternalism, which infantilizes adults, and an absolute rejection of paternalism, which invalidates even the possibility of coercion as an instrumental means of achieving the good.
He'd rather die than be infantilized and surrender his sense of autonomy.
Suppose Billy Strayhorn had been liberated instead of "adopted" and infantilized.
I was like David Malouf's imagining of Ovid in his banishment — infantilized by exile.
In a way, he's perfect — his use of the double brake is protective without being infantilizing, his corrections are firm but never condescending or judgmental, he spares my feelings but tells the truth if asked.
