cosseted

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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

Much of his life was spent in the cosseted luxury of a five-star hotel.

From BBC • May 14, 2023

She coddled and cosseted him to her heart's content.

From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Griffiths, Arthur