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

Chicken Little, don’t make a mollycoddle of me.

From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie

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

The movement for peace is not one of weaklings and mollycoddles.

From Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association by Stephen Francis Weston

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

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

Yet they are sturdy little things and no mollycoddles.

From Letters from China and Japan by John Dewey

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

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

From Old Lady Number 31 by Louise Forsslund

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

Hard-liners sometimes criticise the church for "mollycoddling" the teenagers at St Basil's - who they would prefer to see serving long prison sentences than practicing Parkour.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2012

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)