mollycoddle

Example Sentences

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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

I wouldn't be put upon and called baby and a mollycoddle and have that Perkins crowding me off the line and losing marks.

From A Little Girl in Old New York by Douglas, Amanda Minnie