mollycoddle

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

"We weren't going to mollycoddle him," Lenagan says.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 3, 2011

No mollycoddle swain am I. I shall not sit and pine, by gorry!

From Something Else Again by Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce)

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

In this great expanse of wilderness toilers are needed, but we can’t use mollycoddles.

From The Peace of Roaring River by Koerner, W. H. D. (William Henry Dethlef)

But, so far as the imagination is concerned, they themselves are mollycoddles who will not venture beyond a game of halma or a sugarstick by the hearth.

From The Book of This and That by Lynd, Robert

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

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

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

Were these schoolchildren really so mollycoddled that they couldn’t cope for just a minute without distraction, without the consolation of continuous chatter?

From The Guardian ● Jun. 6, 2018

Maybe he was too old for anything except just to be "mollycoddled" by thoughtful old ladies.

From Old Lady Number 31 by Forsslund, Louise

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 Lichtenstein, Alfred