coddle
verb (used with object)
to treat tenderly; nurse or tend indulgently; pamper.
have been coddling
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present perfect progressiveof coddle.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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New York police have been coddling teamsters long enough by closing too many an eye in violation cases.
From Time Magazine Archive
"They should have been coddling Jeffords, not punishing him," one says.
From Time Magazine Archive
We had four 306 sons, and they have nine sons among them, and all of the nine are now fighting the vipers they have been coddling for forty or fifty years.
From An Orkney Maid by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
