cosset

In contrast, the high-ticket productions on Broadway more often than not aim to cosset.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2019

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

He was an intellectual cosset, and educated in a way that made the English pedagogues stand aghast.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Elbert Hubbard

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

There is really no describing how a swindler cossets his dupe.

From Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac

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

“But I seem to have been cosseted in some way that I couldn’t get to the writers’ room.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2024

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

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2023

She coddled and cosseted him to her heart's content.

From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths

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

When the vastly unqualified Dell stumbles into a job as Phillip’s caregiver, he’s rewarded with an eyebrow-raising salary and a depressed patient who needs entertaining more than cosseting.

From New York Times ● Jan. 9, 2019

Modern America, with its enervating comforts — including cosseting parents — and present-minded education that produces cultural amnesia, must deliberately make its citizens.

From Washington Post ● May 26, 2017

As she approached adolescence, her mother’s obsessive cosseting only became more pronounced.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 1, 2016

The rescuers needed cosseting as much as the rescued.

From For the Sake of the School by Angela Brazil