cosset

Like the best of children’s literature, then and now, “Treasure Island” looks to lure its young readers into the adult world, not to cosset them from it.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2020

She wonders if there was something in Farquharson, by contrast, that brought out “the maternal in women, our tendency to cosset, to infantilise.”

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 4, 2016

Supporters of scooters say they offer something extremely valuable - freedom, countering the perceived tendency of many risk-averse parents to cosset their children indoors.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2015

It is clear from the excellent condition of all our homes that we cosset them.

From The Guardian ● May 25, 2012

But Nature is no sentimentalist—does not cosset or pamper us.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

Yet The Man Who Knew Infinity also shows the place as a golden doll’s house that cossets the don he plays, Trinity College maths professor GH Hardy.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2016

A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses.

From Reuters ● Oct. 27, 2010

No, she calls the Plaza's elegant Edwardian Room, an oasis that cossets the wealthy with candles and linen napkins.

From Time Magazine Archive

And how could any live creeter brook the agony them long steel cossets wuz dealin’ the wearer?

From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley

By and by I grew up to be a big girl, and then, what with tending the sick sheep, and bringing up the cossets, I had plenty to do.

From Minnie's Pet Lamb by Madeline Leslie

She may have grown up in showbusiness, working on multiple Disney shows before launching her music career, but she's neither cosseted nor precious.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

The characters she plays in that show and in this film are financially cosseted but psychologically adrift, bumping along from one middle-aged frustration, or humiliation, to the next.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 26, 2026

Is there a benefit to being ignored by the industry — you don’t end up cosseted or overly corporate — at least as far as your stand-up goes?

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025

I cosseted my weary garden with clover, practiced patience, saw the vanity of overwork.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023

“We’ve petted and cosseted her too much,” said Aunt Jerrold to herself.

From Witness to the Deed by George Manville Fenn

Catherine essentially becomes a character in a Sofia Coppola movie who grows increasingly trapped and anguished in proportion to her cosseting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

Her wide, defiantly plain face and unruly emotionalism seemed to reject the cosseting, glamorizing gaze of Hollywood cameras.

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2020

Denice Williams – Free From 1976, soul music so pillowy and cosseting, it makes Minnie Ripperton’s Loving You sound like Motörhead.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2020

Experienced for the first time, this covert cosseting feels slightly melancholy, like an episode of Cold War fiction involving futile charades and a likely defenestration.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 5, 2016

But the Fatherland is not spoiling or cosseting this man to an extent that will enervate him in the least.

From Travels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley