mollycoddling

Example Sentences

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You’d think businesses wouldn’t require a lot of mollycoddling when it came to defining abusive behavior.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2021

While perhaps whimsical in premise, it was not an exercise in mollycoddling.

From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2021

I took refuge in what the club calls the press building, a recently constructed Taj Mahal of media mollycoddling.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 14, 2019

Once we established trust and the connection between each other, he didn't need any mollycoddling and neither did I. And that's what you want.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2013

After a time, the chaplain decided not to allow any more such mollycoddling of the soul of his son.

From The Prose of Alfred Lichtenstein by Lichtenstein, Alfred