- present participle of mollycoddle.
mollycoddling
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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
And I hated him for calling out that this was what people got by mollycoddling their children.
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
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