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Definition of trophy child in US English: trophy childnoun A child whose birth or achievements are paraded to enhance the parents' status. Example sentencesExamples - Certainly, just as there are trophy wives, there are now trophy children.
- We long for the days when all it took to fit in at the country club was one trophy child.
- ‘The college student today has generally been a kind of trophy child,’ Mark says.
- And parents of trophy children are unusually focused on outcomes and the belief that they can control them.
- Our ability to meddle with the genome will likely result in trophy children just as there are trophy wives and increasingly with women's empowerment, trophy husbands.
- And the author skillfully suggests that the high-powered couple's desire to augment little Dylan's intelligence is a complicated mix of genuine love and the desire for a trophy child who complements all their other ‘possessions.’
- They have huge white-leather sofas, a wall-to-wall aquarium of tropical fish, gizmos and gadgets, three gorgeous trophy children, and an au pair to keep them out of sight and out of mind.
- Protected and polished, they are trophy children in every sense of the word.
- She's a cute little trophy child whose parents are prepared to tamper with evidence in order to shift the guilt.
- I am sick of self-absorbed, career oriented yuppie parents whose only interest in having a ‘family’ is to have trophy children.
- A leading social and ethics commentator noted: ‘Evidently this couple wanted just one child, a trophy child, added to their list of wants.’
- The moment Henry began to say something, Laura interrupted him, snarling, ‘In case you've forgotten, Father: the trophy child in this family has been dead for eight years, and I am not resuming her pathetic role… Good day, Father.’
- She stops the pill because of hormone-driven moodiness, nobly deciding to keep the inevitable trophy child rather than suffer the agonies of monthly menstrual misery.
- There is no need for you to be a trophy child.
- I don't think having pride in your child is the same thing as having a trophy child.
Definition of trophy child in US English: trophy childnoun A child whose birth or achievements are paraded to enhance the parents' status. Example sentencesExamples - A leading social and ethics commentator noted: ‘Evidently this couple wanted just one child, a trophy child, added to their list of wants.’
- There is no need for you to be a trophy child.
- She's a cute little trophy child whose parents are prepared to tamper with evidence in order to shift the guilt.
- Our ability to meddle with the genome will likely result in trophy children just as there are trophy wives and increasingly with women's empowerment, trophy husbands.
- The moment Henry began to say something, Laura interrupted him, snarling, ‘In case you've forgotten, Father: the trophy child in this family has been dead for eight years, and I am not resuming her pathetic role… Good day, Father.’
- They have huge white-leather sofas, a wall-to-wall aquarium of tropical fish, gizmos and gadgets, three gorgeous trophy children, and an au pair to keep them out of sight and out of mind.
- She stops the pill because of hormone-driven moodiness, nobly deciding to keep the inevitable trophy child rather than suffer the agonies of monthly menstrual misery.
- And parents of trophy children are unusually focused on outcomes and the belief that they can control them.
- Protected and polished, they are trophy children in every sense of the word.
- Certainly, just as there are trophy wives, there are now trophy children.
- We long for the days when all it took to fit in at the country club was one trophy child.
- I am sick of self-absorbed, career oriented yuppie parents whose only interest in having a ‘family’ is to have trophy children.
- ‘The college student today has generally been a kind of trophy child,’ Mark says.
- And the author skillfully suggests that the high-powered couple's desire to augment little Dylan's intelligence is a complicated mix of genuine love and the desire for a trophy child who complements all their other ‘possessions.’
- I don't think having pride in your child is the same thing as having a trophy child.
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