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cosset

[ UK /kˈɒsɛt/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑsət/ ]
VERB
  1. treat with excessive indulgence
    grandparents often pamper the children
    Let's not mollycoddle our students!

How To Use cosset In A Sentence

  • The paintings of the Post-Impressionists, including Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, which formerly hung in the claustrophobic, columned Bellechasse gallery, are cosseted now one floor below in small, elegant, midnight-blue galleries dedicated to the late scholar Françoise Cachin, who served as the museum's first director. New Visions Arrive at the Orsay
  • Since Christiane's doctor has warned her son that she must never experience any more shocks, Alex cossets his mother in their apartment.
  • Each evening the horses were bedded down, fed, watered, cosseted and crooned at.
  • Her early life was cosseted by her immense riches. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now I would rather a player was cosseted than pummelled. Times, Sunday Times
  • Further changes in the proposed combined baryta-soda method for juice purification consist in using powdered soda carbonate 90-92°, upon beet cossettes as they leave the slicer, before entering the diffusor. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
  • Is it just me that finds it beyond bizarre that some people expect POC to cosset and protect them from discomfort in order for there to be appropriate conversations about how racism affects POC? Oh, wow. free verse dinocorns.
  • He's been through hard times: his hardscrabble childhood on the veld would make David Copperfield's seem cosseted by comparison.
  • The team were still wrapped together in the comfort zone of a four-year period when each had cosseted and protected the other.
  • Meanwhile, we Europeans congratulated ourselves on forging a deal at Kyoto that would halt the oceans' rise and cosset the ice-deprived polar bears so memorably depicted in Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth. How Not to Run Environmental Policy
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