mollycoddling

“She’s very worked up and her voice is going all over the place as she’s trying to talk about the economy and not mollycoddling the public, which is one of her favorite topics,” Anderson says.

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

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

They want to make up for decades of disinvestment in struggling communities, for years of mollycoddling a population wedded to high-priced “watercraft.”

“Being scared is a rite of passage,” children’s author Joanna Nadin once said, “but a pleasurable one. I don’t see the gain in mollycoddling.”