paternalistically

Examples

• All

• Then, in the weeks following the peaceful resolution to the event (though not necessarily the various issues raised by it), local news coverage generally resumed its paternalistically colonial pre-seizure character.

  Academic text (2007)

• At present, there is much criticism regarding government-centered approaches applied top-down and paternalistically in rural development and water management policies.

  Academic text (2008)

• Who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom?

• When I first came to Mexico City as an adult over ten years ago, college teachers and leftists in general treated me paternalistically.

  Academic text (2012)

• The two parts of the policy are reconcilable only if physicians act paternalistically and decide that a certain quality of life would be unsatisfactory to the patient.

  Academic text (2000)

• First, a major similarity between the population policies of South Africa and the United States is the paternalistically racist philosophy that underlies and directs them.

  Academic text (1993)

• The institutional church, paternalistically dictating from afar the structure of parish communities, tended to alienate foreigners.

  Academic text (1997)

• "My young barbarians," he paternalistically confided in his journal after just three days in Camp Sexton, "are not truthful, honest, or chaste."

  Blog text (14)

• Because such an outcome could seriously jeopardize their career prospects, a tacit clientelist bargain emerged: danwei managers would treat workers paternalistically, while workers would undertake to be reliable and cooperative.

  Academic text (2014)

• The black clergy adopted a legalistic approach to orthodoxy that paternalistically relegated parishioners to an underclass incapable of appreciating the finer points of theological law.

  Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

P

paternally

vspaternalistically

1 6.3

In a caring way like a father who gives advice and looks after people

adds decision making and authority, sometimes limiting others' freedom

S

smotheringly

vspaternalistically

7.5

In a way that shows too much care and takes away freedom

shows care and makes decisions for others while limiting freedom but with authority

Antonyms

F

freely

287 1.0

In a way that has no rules or limits

I

independently

121 2.9

Without help from other people

How Paternalistic

intrusively

1 6.4

paternalistically

• Formal

1 8.7

protectively

5 3.0

permissively

5.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology