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Treat (someone) in an indulgent or overprotective way.
‘I found school very difficult, and realized I'd been mollycoddled at home’
‘he was getting too old for such mollycoddling’
‘If they were being mollycoddled and taking advantage of the system, they would be doing well for themselves.’
‘After a hard day at the office, all I want to do is go home to be mollycoddled.’
‘Following the successful implementation of the smoking ban in enclosed public places, they have devised a plan to mollycoddle us into wellness.’
‘In other words, it becomes a point of principle that his literature mollycoddles its readers.’
‘Schools are mollycoddling pupils, producing a generation of unhealthy underachievers, the government's education agency has warned.’
‘It's comforting, I suppose, to think that the Government cares so much about our safety to the point of mollycoddling.’
‘The temptation to mollycoddle people who are unable to deal with insulting challenges to themselves or their beliefs is very strong.’
‘I have always looked out for myself, I don't need any one to mollycoddle me.’
‘There is a limit to the levels at which children can be mollycoddled.’
‘He wrote that the function of fantasy was ‘consolation’, thereby making it an article of policy that a fantasy writer should mollycoddle the reader.’
‘‘The last thing I want to do is be mollycoddled,’ he said.’
‘This was a small step towards ending the economic mollycoddling of the aviation industry.’
‘We mollycoddle prisoners in this country, to some degree.’
‘There is no doubt that the mollycoddling of these early years was to have a significantly negative effect on Hughes in later life.’
‘If harsh prison terms and hanging is not the answer, neither is a kinder gentler mollycoddling.’
‘People make the mistake of mollycoddling disabled people, but it's the worst thing you can do.’
‘He certainly seems uneasy with the accoutrements of fame and says he hates being mollycoddled.’
‘Yet in spite of this mollycoddling, children today are more isolated than ever.’
‘I have been very fortunate in being brought up in a generation which has been mollycoddled.’
‘I wish I could hold her in my arms and mollycoddle her, the way I did when she was just a baby.’
pamper, cosset, coddle, spoil, indulge, overindulge, pet, baby, wait on hand and foot, wrap in cotton wool, spoon-feed, kill by kindness, kill with kindness, nanny, nursemaid, feather-bed, overparent