cosseted
Example Sentences
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She may have grown up in showbusiness, working on multiple Disney shows before launching her music career, but she's neither cosseted nor precious.
From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026
The characters she plays in that show and in this film are financially cosseted but psychologically adrift, bumping along from one middle-aged frustration, or humiliation, to the next.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026
“But I seem to have been cosseted in some way that I couldn’t get to the writers’ room.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024
I cosseted my weary garden with clover, practiced patience, saw the vanity of overwork.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023
Had he played his cards better, had he comforted and flattered and cosseted the old man, Mountjoy might have gone his own way to the dogs.
From Mr. Scarborough's Family by Trollope, Anthony
