mollycoddle

Example Sentences

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“I don’t think we can be mollycoddled to live in a bubble the whole time.”

From Washington Post

“She’s very worked up and her voice is going all over the place as she’s trying to talk about the economy and not mollycoddling the public, which is one of her favorite topics,” Anderson says.

From Los Angeles Times

They want to make up for decades of disinvestment in struggling communities, for years of mollycoddling a population wedded to high-priced “watercraft.”

From New York Times

She asks hard questions: “Why are we so afraid to tell the stories of the majority who die? Why keep promoting the positive anecdote? Why all this mollycoddling?”

From New York Times

“Attacks like this happen because the establishment panders to and mollycoddles extremist Leftism and barbaric, alien religious cultures. Not when someone dares to point it out,” Mr. Yiannopoulos added.

From Washington Times