mollycoddle

The feat followed trial and error that initially saw him mollycoddle corals in stress-free environments, but those easily perished in the ocean once transplanted.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

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

Sinclair’s novel is told from the perspective of Peter, “a patriot of patriots, a super-patriot; Peter was a red-blooded American and no mollycoddle; Peter was a ‘he-American’, a 100% American ...

From The Guardian ● Apr. 21, 2018

I can’t stand it all the time being a mollycoddle.

From The Job An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis

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

Besides, I don't want them to grow up spoiled mollycoddles.

From Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley

In practice what happens is that parents notice that boys brought up at home become mollycoddles, or prigs, or duffers, unable to take care of themselves.

From Treatise on Parents and Children by Bernard Shaw

I'm tired of mollycoddles and book-worms,' said Nan in her decided way.

From Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

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

Were these schoolchildren really so mollycoddled that they couldn’t cope for just a minute without distraction, without the consolation of continuous chatter?

From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2018

Between my mother and my sister the kid was being absolutely ruined—petted, mollycoddled, and was getting soft and silly—oh, something to make you sick.

From The Haunted Pajamas by Francis Perry Elliott

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)