mollycoddle
noun
a man or boy who is used to being coddled; a milksop.
mollycoddling
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present participleof mollycoddle.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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He was also critical of what he called a culture of "hiding behind words like 'wellbeing'" and "mollycoddling" children.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2025
You’d think businesses wouldn’t require a lot of mollycoddling when it came to defining abusive behavior.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2021
While perhaps whimsical in premise, it was not an exercise in mollycoddling.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2021
I took refuge in what the club calls the press building, a recently constructed Taj Mahal of media mollycoddling.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2019
“But what I say is, too much cuddling and mollycoddling isn’t good for that boy of yours, or anybody else’s boy.”
From The Prairie Child by Ward. E. F. (Edmund Franklin)
