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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of mollycoddle.

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Examples

  • The deputy coroner, Simon Burge, commended the Bray family for letting the boy play outside alone, saying children were too often "mollycoddled".

    Boy accidentally hanged himself on swing, inquest hears Steven Morris 2010

  • He must not be "mollycoddled"; to do so would be to leave him a burden to himself and to his friends.

    Through St. Dunstan's to Light James H. Rawlinson

  • The research adds fuel to the claims that today's children are being 'mollycoddled' and by a 'risk averse' culture.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • The research adds fuel to the claims that today's children are being 'mollycoddled' and by a 'risk averse' culture.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • The Manchester United captain Gary Neville has followed up his manager's claims that footballers are "mollycoddled", by suggesting they "don't know how to set up their own bank account, they don't know what they're spending their money on and they can't make their own decisions".

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • Manchester United's captain, Gary Neville, has hit out at modern footballers who have everything done for them and are "mollycoddled" by their agents.

    ManUtd.com News RSS 2009

  • Boys who are "mollycoddled" as babies and toddlers are more likely to grow into men who will be more ...

    THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009

  • 'mollycoddled' by agents, has been advised by his father, Neville Neville, throughout the bulk of his career.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • If this is representative of the grueling hardships we have to endure, what pathetically mollycoddled wusses we are.

    Obama’s War « Antiwar.com Blog 2009

  • In many ways, public option supporters have been slapped in the face while annoying moderates have been mollycoddled.

    Matthew Yglesias » Defections from the Left 2010

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