Example sentences for: infantilized

How can you use “infantilized” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Influenced by the psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim's research showing that the Nazi concentration camps "infantilized" their inmates, Elkins argued that the "closed system" of slavery was so cruel and all-encompassing that none but the most stouthearted could survive without their wills being broken or their psyches damaged.

  • Dissenters echo Cynthia Ozick's criticism in an October issue of The New Yorker that the play remains "infantilized, Americanized, homogenized, [and] sentimentalized."

  • Home is where parents feel infantilized, trapped on a treadmill of efficiency.


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