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

Love is the last refuge of the mollycoddle, of the coward.

From Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays by Various

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

They were not mollycoddles in that family; well or ill, they never worried, and nothing could bring about any change in the habits of the two Kraffts, father and son.

From Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Gilbert Cannan

Mr. Crow called to Nimble and Dodger, while Jasper Jay jeered at them both and told them they were mollycoddles.

From The Tale of Nimble Deer Sleepy-Time Tales by Harry L. Smith

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

From Where the Blue Begins by Christopher Morley

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

He never mistrusts how much he’s been mollycoddled, until he finds himself with nobody but a valet, a housekeeper, and seventeen assorted servants to help him along in the struggle for existence.

From Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford

He was also critical of what he called a culture of "hiding behind words like 'wellbeing'" and "mollycoddling" children.

From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2025

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

After a time, the chaplain decided not to allow any more such mollycoddling of the soul of his son.

From The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein by Alfred Lichtenstein