0 past simple and past participle of mollycoddle
1 to give someone too much care or protection:
They must not be armed with pikes, but they can't expect to be mollycoddled.
If the tenants wish to be further mollycoddled, let them be so at their own risk because they will lose the goodwill of the landlords.
The equity of the system is difficult to perceive, although no service man would wish to expect to be mollycoddled.
Let no one imagine that the textile industry seeks to be mollycoddled.
They do not want to be mollycoddled by employers.
They are not crying out to be mollycoddled.
We do not want them mollycoddled.
I doubt very much whether our judges wish to be mollycoddled, if that is not too strong a term, in the way that is proposed here.
