How to Use infantilize in a Sentence

infantilize

verb

• The ash barrels lining the street and the ramshackle buildings and the friendly visitors to the poor dominate and infantilize them.
  — Longreads, 20 July 2019
• And while Love on the Spectrum has a diverse cast, some experts say the series’ focus on family distress can infantilize the cast.
  — Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 24 Feb. 2024
• Yet both Chozick and Alter refer to Clinton by her first name alone — a practice long used to dismiss and infantilize the person being named.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2018
• Both are fussed over by family members with a tendency to infantilize them.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 8 Sep. 2023
• All of this impacts the bottom line: When leaders infantilize those reporting to them, there’s no room left for risk-taking or learning from mistakes.
  — Lisa Schmidt, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• In other offspring news, the president managed to degrade and infantilize what is by all accounts his favorite child.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2017
• Jokes aside, fans have interpreted this lyric as a critique of predatory men who infantilize women.
  — Alyssa Bailey, ELLE, 20 Oct. 2022
• The church also tends to misunderstand, infantilize and even demonize those who question.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Aug. 2022
• Parents said their children should be able to contact them directly during free periods, while students described the all-day ban as unfair and infantilizing.
  — Natasha Singer, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2023
• One need not infantilize mothers to acknowledge that strong societal forces can impair their moral vision, particularly for the very young and vulnerable.
  — Bethel McGrew, National Review, 27 Jan. 2022
• In the absence of hard numbers, RTO demands can look like overbearing and infantilizing attempts to micromanage employees who are already performing well.
  — Simon Willis, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
• Facets of girlboss culture (something that, with its infantilizing name did seem doomed) continue to come under scrutiny and the widespread hustle harder mentality, questioned.
  — Fiorella Valdesolo, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2024
• Instead, the modern era is full of clichéd memes of wise owls and adorable otters superimposed with slogans that infantilize or spread misinformation about actual animal behavior.
  — Jeff Vandermeer, The Atlantic, 9 May 2017
• These kitschy activities infantilize what ought to be a rigorous pursuit of professional competency.
  — Daniel Buck, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2022
• His position that nanny-state efforts to override markets infantilize the governed by precluding decision makers’ responses to prices is consistent with his position that government lacks the information needed to manage scarcity.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2021
• But that's simultaneously infantilizing adult audiences and leaving kids out.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
• Movies can overromanticize, infantilize or instill incongruously adult wisdom in young characters.
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• Nina’s ceaseless obsession with perfection is exacerbated by her infantilizing mother and domineering director, sending her spiraling into crippling paranoia.
  — Men's Health, 17 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024