Coddling
[kɔdlɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coddle
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Examples
- And when they don't, which is most of the time, we deny truth, falsify facts, and prefer the coddling of our theory to any deeper understanding of the real problem before us. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Always preaching, retorted she; always coddling and admonishing. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Be satisfied with doctoring and coddling yourself and the children, and let me look as I chuse. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I suspect she is right, and that I've been coddling the fellow as if I'd been his grandmother. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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