cosset

In contrast, the high-ticket productions on Broadway more often than not aim to cosset.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2019

She wonders if there was something in Farquharson, by contrast, that brought out “the maternal in women, our tendency to cosset, to infantilise.”

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016

Supporters of scooters say they offer something extremely valuable - freedom, countering the perceived tendency of many risk-averse parents to cosset their children indoors.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2015

It is clear from the excellent condition of all our homes that we cosset them.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2012

His wife sheared their only cosset sheep in January, wrapped it in burlap blankets to keep it from freezing, carded and spun and wove the wool, and made it into an overcoat for him.

From Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power by Orison Swett Marden

Yet The Man Who Knew Infinity also shows the place as a golden doll’s house that cossets the don he plays, Trinity College maths professor GH Hardy.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2016

A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses.

From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2010

No, she calls the Plaza's elegant Edwardian Room, an oasis that cossets the wealthy with candles and linen napkins.

From Time Magazine Archive

And they would probable be disgusted because she didn't wear cossets.

From Samantha at the World's Fair by Baron C. de Grimm

My musical nephew there cossets himself up in his room, while I, at his age, was out making my way in the world.

From Edelweiss A Story by Berthold Auerbach

The characters she plays in that show and in this film are financially cosseted but psychologically adrift, bumping along from one middle-aged frustration, or humiliation, to the next.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

“But I seem to have been cosseted in some way that I couldn’t get to the writers’ room.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024

I cosseted my weary garden with clover, practiced patience, saw the vanity of overwork.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023

Much of his life was spent in the cosseted luxury of a five-star hotel.

From BBC ● May 14, 2023

Had he played his cards better, had he comforted and flattered and cosseted the old man, Mountjoy might have gone his own way to the dogs.

From Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

Catherine essentially becomes a character in a Sofia Coppola movie who grows increasingly trapped and anguished in proportion to her cosseting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

There remains, true to form, beauty in the chaos she conjures, both in the cosseting string section and the sense of awe she exudes without affectation.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 21, 2018

Experienced for the first time, this covert cosseting feels slightly melancholy, like an episode of Cold War fiction involving futile charades and a likely defenestration.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2016

Many admirers of the sprawling, cosseting restaurant Gabriel Kreuther opened after nine years at the Modern have been inclined to see it as fine dining’s last stand.

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2015

"Because ye are aye so foolish o'er the lad, cosseting a strapping grown-up loon as if he was a baby; that is what'll be his ruin in the end."

From Norston's Rest by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens