mollycoddle
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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
That may annoy European bankers, but is hardly a reason to mollycoddle them.
From Economist • Oct. 15, 2015
One of the worst things about Britain, she says, is how we mollycoddle our children and encourage them to expect the worst of strangers.
From The Guardian • Apr. 2, 2010
And secretly he was grateful to the Hall Master, though he still pretended to believe and possibly did half believe that the latter was a sort of mollycoddle.
From Left End Edwards by Relyea, C. M. (Charles Mark)
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