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

That may annoy European bankers, but is hardly a reason to mollycoddle them.

From Economist ● Oct. 15, 2015

She would regard me as a mollycoddle if I permitted it.

From The Old Blood by Frederick Palmer

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

Were its ballplayers men or New Age mollycoddles?

From Time Magazine Archive

A fine race of mollycoddles we should be without our sins and sufferings!

From Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse by B. H. Roberts

We're a passel of mollycoddles, asleep on the job.

From Cappy Ricks Retires by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

Boys who associated with them were, in his estimation, mollycoddles.

From Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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

Siwash College, the pride of six decades, mollycoddled by an old parody on a gorilla with a grouch against the solar system!

From At Good Old Siwash by George Fitch

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

Once we established trust and the connection between each other, he didn't need any mollycoddling and neither did I. And that's what you want.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2013

And I hated him for calling out that this was what people got by mollycoddling their children.

From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)