mollycoddle

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[ UK /mˈɒlɪkˌɒdə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈmɑɫiˌkɑdəɫ/ ]
VERB
  1. treat with excessive indulgence
    grandparents often pamper the children
    Let's not mollycoddle our students!
NOUN
  1. a pampered darling; an effeminate man
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How To Use mollycoddle In A Sentence

  • ‘The last thing I want to do is be mollycoddled,’ he said.
  • In other words, it becomes a point of principle that his literature mollycoddles its readers.
  • Someone who she can smother and mollycoddle and fuss over in a generally overcompensatory way, even though at times it’ll make them fantasise about running away because they feel as if they’re trapped in an emotional straitjacket. Sandra Bullock Hasn’t Shut Up About Her Baby For Months
  • Be aware: the rhetoric anent minorities has been reversed, so that the rural community is now dismissed on the very grounds on which other groups were formerly mollycoddled.
  • Mollycoddle half a dozen in air-conditioned luxury aboard an ocean-going trimaran, and peace and harmony shall prevail.
  • He agrees with me, and he's no mollycoddle in the critical ring.
  • Following the successful implementation of the smoking ban in enclosed public places, they have devised a plan to mollycoddle us into wellness.
  • He grew alarmed by my bouts of breathless coughing; mollycoddle, he said, but he said it with fright in his face. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
  • He wants nothing to do with such mollycoddles!
  • He was becoming a mollycoddle and a coward, she said, and it was time he stood on his own feet. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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