mollycoddle

For all the female agency on display, Barbie still has to placate and mollycoddle the insecure Ken.

From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2023

Molly Roberts, true to her name, didn’t mollycoddle the baby boomer generation in her Nov. 6 Wednesday Opinion column, “OK, boomer. The kids are fighting back.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2019

That may annoy European bankers, but is hardly a reason to mollycoddle them.

From Economist ● Oct. 15, 2015

One of the worst things about Britain, she says, is how we mollycoddle our children and encourage them to expect the worst of strangers.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 2, 2010

You must not think that Inga was a mollycoddle or a prig, because he was so solemn and studious.

From Rinkitink in Oz by Neill, John R. (John Rea)

Were its ballplayers men or New Age mollycoddles?

From Time Magazine Archive

So, you see, the picture as you paint it gives us credit for being real hemen, when as a matter of fact we have degenerated into a bunch of mollycoddles.

From Time Magazine Archive

And he muttered something about dunces, and mollycoddles, and—yes! ’fraid-cats!

From The Tale of Jolly Robin by Smith, Harry L.

He had his own way of hitting back at the mollycoddles.

From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Warren, Arthur

Boys who associated with them were, in his estimation, mollycoddles.

From Son of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice

His passion for her grows to such a pitch that he starts bounding up stairs instead of crawling over them like a mollycoddled toddler.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 16, 2024

I went from my parents’ mollycoddled child to an adult that had to do their own laundry.

From The Verge ● Aug. 8, 2022

“I don’t think we can be mollycoddled to live in a bubble the whole time.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2021

One of the great things about being in a group is also the worst thing about being in a group: You’re very mollycoddled, you’re encouraged to escape reality.

From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2017

Maybe he was too old for anything except just to be "mollycoddled" by thoughtful old ladies.

From Old Lady Number 31 by Forsslund, Louise

You’d think businesses wouldn’t require a lot of mollycoddling when it came to defining abusive behavior.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2021

While perhaps whimsical in premise, it was not an exercise in mollycoddling.

From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2021

I took refuge in what the club calls the press building, a recently constructed Taj Mahal of media mollycoddling.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2019

Hard-liners sometimes criticise the church for "mollycoddling" the teenagers at St Basil's - who they would prefer to see serving long prison sentences than practicing Parkour.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2012

“But what I say is, too much cuddling and mollycoddling isn’t good for that boy of yours, or anybody else’s boy.”

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)