0 to give a lot of attention to making someone comfortable and to protecting them from anything unpleasant: --
disapproving The country has been cosseted (= too protected) by the government for so long that people have forgotten how to take responsibility for themselves.
Children sometimes need to be cosseted.
We feel that it will have to be a good deal fattened and cossetted before it reaches its proper stature.
They do not wish to be cosseted, though it would be foolish to deny that they would not benefit from any limitation of liability.
Any idea that, in general, prisoners are kept in a cossetted or comfortable state is well astray.
All these firms are sustained by public money, protected, and, indeed, cossetted by public money.
The capitalists have to be cosseted and their confidence built up.
He can be much loved and cosseted and can be the most faithful animal.
The staff will be instructed to comfort and cosset the offenders.
He is cossetted to the tune of £40,000 a year of public money.
