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
Sinclair’s novel is told from the perspective of Peter, “a patriot of patriots, a super-patriot; Peter was a red-blooded American and no mollycoddle; Peter was a ‘he-American’, a 100% American ...
From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2018
That may annoy European bankers, but is hardly a reason to mollycoddle them.
From Economist • Oct. 15, 2015
A note in the Irving-version states that Capulet is a meddlesome mollycoddle not unlike Polonius.
From Shakespeare in the Theatre by Poel, William
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