Example Sentences

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So, you see, the picture as you paint it gives us credit for being real hemen, when as a matter of fact we have degenerated into a bunch of mollycoddles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Were its ballplayers men or New Age mollycoddles?

From Time Magazine Archive

A fine race of mollycoddles we should be without our sins and sufferings!

From Joseph Smith the Prophet-Teacher A Discourse by Roberts, B. H.

He didn't have any use for mollycoddles and he brought his oldest boy, Bob, up to fight his own battles, not wasting any sympathy on him.

From Over the Line by Sherman, Harold Morrow

"You wouldn't have us be mollycoddles, would you?" asked Dick in surprise.

From The High School Boys' Canoe Club by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)