cosset

[ UK /kˈɒsɛt/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑsət/ ]
VERB
  1. treat with excessive indulgence
    grandparents often pamper the children
    Let's not mollycoddle our students!
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How To Use cosset In A Sentence

  • Between she and my mother, I was tended like the rarest of blooms, fed and cosseted like a delicate rose. 2009 May « Becca’s Byline
  • It occurred to me, as I took my bag over, that it might be airline policy to comfort those who were going home for reasons such as mine with an upgrade, to cosset them through the night with quiet sympathy and an extra blanket or something. The Empty Family
  • Liberalizing professional services, by abolishing or clipping the powers of cosseted guild associations, and making employment contracts easier to end are two of the most explosive issues in Italian politics. Italy Buffeted by Greece News
  • His target was the traditional social model, the set of protections and regulations that have cosseted European workers for so long.
  • Our current cosseted life is fooling us into thinking that we will be immune. Times, Sunday Times
  • You don't feel cosseted or pampered, just on edge. Times, Sunday Times
  • You don't feel cosseted or pampered, just on edge. Times, Sunday Times
  • Had one noble thought opening the chambers of the intellect, one sentiment from the heart of God been spoken by them, the reader had been made a participator of their triumph; he too had been an invited and eternal guest; but this reward granted them is property, all-excluding property, a little cake baked for them to eat and for none other, nay, a preference and cosseting which is rude and insulting to all but the minion. Uncollected Prose
  • The women had gathered around me, making the kinds of soothing noises that always made me nervous, and they herded me up to some rooms where they fed me, bathed me, and cosseted me, deftly deflecting any of my questions, all under the capable direction of the woman named Sarah. Raziel
  • He had always been fond of Jinx - in other circumstances, the bipedal tiger might have become a cosseted pet.
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