mollycoddle

How To Use mollycoddle In A Sentence

• He was becoming a mollycoddle and a coward, she said, and it was time he stood on his own feet. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
• Let's not mollycoddle our students!
• We mollycoddle prisoners in this country, to some degree.
• The next day he rose early, and while the rest of his suite were sleeping went out unattended, returning before breakfast was over with a tally-card showing a killing of thirteen dinosaurs, twenty-seven megatheriums, and about six tons of chlamy-dophori, not to mention a mammoth jack-rabbit that some idiot had told him was the only specimen in the world of the monodelphian mollycoddle. The Autobiography of Methuselah
• I have been very fortunate in being brought up in a generation which has been mollycoddled.
• He certainly seems uneasy with the accoutrements of fame and says he hates being mollycoddled.
• After a hard day at the office, all I want to do is go home to be mollycoddled.
• He grew alarmed by my bouts of breathless coughing; mollycoddle, he said, but he said it with fright in his face. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
• He wrote that the function of fantasy was ‘consolation’, thereby making it an article of policy that a fantasy writer should mollycoddle the reader.
• I have always looked out for myself, I don't need any one to mollycoddle me.