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

Aunt Hetty's blanket had been made from the wool of an especial cosset lamb that had lost its mother and been brought up by hand.

From A Little Girl of Long Ago by Amanda Minnie Douglas

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

By and by I grew up to be a big girl, and then, what with tending the sick sheep, and bringing up the cossets, I had plenty to do.

From Minnie's Pet Lamb by Madeline Leslie

There is really no describing how a swindler cossets his dupe.

From Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac

She may have grown up in showbusiness, working on multiple Disney shows before launching her music career, but she's neither cosseted nor precious.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

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

Mr. Mortimer had never been so looked after, cosseted, and comforted for his early start as the next morning, nor the children found their mother so patient and affectionate.

From Frivolous Cupid by Anthony Hope

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

Her wide, defiantly plain face and unruly emotionalism seemed to reject the cosseting, glamorizing gaze of Hollywood cameras.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2020

As she approached adolescence, her mother’s obsessive cosseting only became more pronounced.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2016

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

Do you suppose you young married creatures are the only wives who enjoy cosseting their husbands?

From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan