mollycoddle

Example Sentences

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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

"We weren't going to mollycoddle him," Lenagan says.

From The Guardian • Mar. 3, 2011

I won’t mollycoddle them, and they will have to shift for themselves, but I’ll see that they get through all right.

From The Young Alaskans by Hough, Emerson