(v. t.) To treat with excessive tenderness; to pamper.
Example Sentences:
(1) They're angelic mother-saviours, there to lead Caspar out of misery by coddling his ego.
(2) The children of the rich never stop being coddled and gladhanded their way through life; the children of the poor deserve a little bit of support before being dumped on to the minimum wage pile.
(3) But is reducing use by deploying other substances, such as the pheromone of the female coddling moth , the pest that puts maggots on apples.
(4) As he put it: "My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly Congress.
(5) China doesn't just violate the human rights of its citizens, it coddles and supports brutal dictatorships around the world.
(6) We didn’t coddle or conciliate with the dictators in Iran.” On the eve of his visit to Lausanne, Kerry said he would not take responsibility for Cotton’s intervention, which he said was an unprecedented attempt to interfere in an executive’s foreign negotiations.
(7) France, Germany and other states that have coddled up to the Communist dictatorship in Beijing will one day have to answer to the Chinese people, one of the country's leading civil rights activist has told The Observer.
(8) Needless to say, the purchasers were wealthy Tory donors looking out for their coddled offspring.
(9) And in the middle of it were the two Matthews, obsequiously yucking it up like a grotesque Fluck and Law parody of the coddled one-percent.
(10) Conversely, only one in four residents believed that most poor people become poor as a result of lack of effort on their part, and one in five believed that society is coddling the poor.
(11) "For too long," Heijne wrote, "the Dutch government has coddled the dictator in Moscow."
(12) Take the ubiquitous calls today for European countries to do just what will "reassure the markets", as though holders of government bonds were trembling, paranoid little flowers who must be psychically coddled at all costs.
(13) Crazy,” he says, but then a little voice, the one that has savagely punctured the brattishness of coddled celebrities four times now as presenter of the Golden Globes, kicks in.
(14) The radio crackles with adverts attacking the Milwaukee mayor as a gun-controlling, criminal-coddling, union-schmoozing, tax-and-spend liberal dinosaur.
(15) The first few days go to staring and coddling and dodging effluent.
(16) Making Donald Trump our commander-in-chief would be a historic mistake.” The former first lady deconstructed Trump’s policy positions as a recipe for alienating allies, emboldening enemies and coddling dictators.
(17) Photograph: Jonathan Kaiman for the Guardian "He walked this weird line between knowing that he was a symbol of nationhood on one level, and even of independence, I guess – but at the same time, he was very comfortable in this coddled position as a performer," said Deborah Stratman, a Chicago-based documentary film-maker who lived with Adili as he toured Xinjiang for three months in 2001.
(18) Discussing university “safe spaces” and the threats to free speech, the academic psychologist Jonathan Haidt recently suggested the problem had its roots in increasingly risk-free, coddled childhoods.
(19) Lazy bum babies shouldn’t be coddled with all sorts of indolence-promoting nutrition.
(20) The frontrunner for the Republican nomination told the programme’s presenter, Piers Morgan, on Wednesday that residents of the Brussels neighbourhood Molenbeek had “coddled and taken care of” Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam before his arrest.
Nanny
Definition:
(n.) A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name.
Example Sentences:
(1) I remember the blood pouring across the floor and the screaming of the nanny looking after our boys."
(2) David Cameron has made a strong defence of his decision to employ a Nepalese nanny, while at the same time refusing to say that his government will meet its target to cut the number of net migrants to the UK to fewer than 100,000 by next year.
(3) Wise, she says, did the bulk of the childcare during filming of Nanny McPhee, though Gaia did sometimes join her on set.
(4) A more benign version of the thesis – that Siri might have changed his own mind – can be glimpsed, in comedic form, behind Habemus Papam ( We Have a Pope in the UK), the 2011 film by Nanni Moretti, in which a pontiff goes on the run post-election to avoid taking up office.
(5) Although the guidance is not a statutory code and leaves room for doctors' professional judgment, both the government and Labour are wary of "nanny state" approaches.
(6) Bermondsey asks: Could you explain to the British public why 14 year old children are thrown into prison for 3 years for writing nonsense on Facebook and why someone looses their home and goes to jail for doing a nanny job while receiving £70 week in social security while Fred Goodman lives in his holiday home in Barbados for 3 months a year?
(7) At the Woodland Pytchley Hunt, an experienced nanny will be on hand to accompany small children today, and at the Surrey Union a prize of £20 was offered for the "best turned out under 16 year old".
(8) They are dismissed as the work of liberal interferers and apostles of the nanny state.
(9) The Good Care Guide results reveal that children receive better quality of care than their elderly relatives, with 88% of nurseries and 91% of nanny agencies achieving top marks in terms of quality of care – in contrast to 78% of care homes.
(10) Thompson, best known for her acting roles in films such as Sense and Sensibility, Love Actually and Nanny McPhee, also wrote many of those screenplays.
(11) The couple's son Moshe, two, was rescued by his nanny.
(12) But raising the kind of money required to defeat the soda industry in a fight over taxes seemed impossible – until Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City and food nanny to the world, stepped in.
(13) And Mummy said darling, do you remember Bodrum when Nanny walked into pre-lunch drinks on the gulet, of course everyone was incredibly kind, bringing her a Tizer and some After Eights before the men threw her in the sea, the gentlest of hints but basically she never left the lower decks again?
(14) As Labour called for complete transparency over the nanny, Downing Street issued a statement saying Gita Lima had been awarded British citizenship after David Cameron became prime minister in 2010.
(15) "The government has to be much more nanny state in terms of policing the food industry, taxing snack food, taxing fizzy drinks, banning fizzy drinks, banning sugary foods, and not just in school dinners but also in work canteens and hospital food.
(16) She had been looking for a job for nine months but had just landed a position as a nanny for a family on the Upper East Side, starting in January.
(17) Whitehall is bracing itself for a potentially damning report from Sir Alan Budd tomorrow into events surrounding the fast-tracking of a visa application for the nanny of David Blunkett's then lover, Kimberly Quinn.
(18) (I later hear that Mercy has been taken by a nanny to a secret location in the north, ready for the adoption.)
(19) Best pope Michel Piccoli, in Nanni Moretti's otherwise awful Habemus Papam .
(20) The basis of this change has not been published, and yet it will apparently enable considerable funds to be showered on couples with a combined income of up to £300,000 , and serious nannying bills.