mollycoddling

Example Sentences

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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

“But what I say is, too much cuddling and mollycoddling isn’t good for that boy of yours, or anybody else’s boy.”

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