(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.
Pamper
Definition:
(v. t.) To feed to the full; to feed luxuriously; to glut; as, to pamper the body or the appetite.
(v. t.) To gratify inordinately; to indulge to excess; as, to pamper pride; to pamper the imagination.
Example Sentences:
(1) (3) A 2006 Bobcat movie in which the lead ... pampers her pooch.
(2) A small group of us, including a student recovering from exams, a woman with a broken heart and a pair that had stayed at Zamzam before and vowed to return, gathered for some pre-departure pampering.
(3) When it comes to tuition fees, do not believe the voices who tell us that the average Briton thinks students are a pampered lot who should get with the government's plans and count themselves lucky.
(4) There would be no capitulation, no surrender, no private jet into pampered exile.
(5) It seemed a fairytale romance, ideal fodder for the glossy fan magazines, as both were young, attractive, rich and pampered.
(6) Jeremy Corbyn is criticised in much of the media for questioning a system that engorges a tiny minority of wealthy executives while buying the acquiescence of millions through a pampered existence of material excess.
(7) Social maladjustment in the child was significantly related to maternal guilt (P less than 0.05) and pampering (P less than 0.02).
(8) The catch is that you have to fail, or rather pass, a breathalyser test to be allowed in – to make sure that you still have alcohol in your system, that you’re properly hung over and not a healthy type who just fancies some pampering.
(9) And all of it is completely wasted on the very people who can afford it; the ones who book into them not out of greed or even a tinge of hunger, but because they like the way the lighting flatters their complexion and the toiletries in the bogs make them smell like one of Dita Von Teese's freshly pampered armpits.
(10) The privately owned chain is still a relative minnow, controlling just 5.8% of all grocery sales in the UK, but only Pampers nappies are bigger sellers than its Mamia brand, and 8% of our fresh fruit and veg, and over a fifth of all premium steaks, are bought in Aldi stores.
(11) Decca went from being a pampered, uneducated aristocratic child to a fierce civil rights campaigner in the US; Diana remained unapologetically devoted to Mosley to the day he died; Nancy lived a somewhat lonely life in Paris, writing novels.
(12) But the arms race to provide ever greater pampering, cuisine and luxury threatens to endanger their renaissance.
(13) Yes, there are many reasons why the apex of society is such a stitch-up for the pampered and privileged, but the internship filter is certainly one of them.
(14) The pampered plutocracy Last year, the Institute for Fiscal Studies looked at an ever-worsening financial crisis, which will see the amount of public debt owed per person rise from its 2010 level of £15,000 to £23,000 in 2017.
(15) He, too, has a grown-up child – an arrogant and pampered one.
(16) So it's off to LA for a weekend of "luxury pampering" while Bullard sets about Emily's house with his team of long-suffering design lackeys.
(17) Perhaps it's because Allen is, these days, a pampered celebrity – "everything is done for you by minions," he says of the film-making process – that celebrity is the one subject on which To Rome With Love feels authentic and personal.
(18) But a systematic policy of pampering the wealthy, be they domestic or foreign, allied to a callous disregard of the interest of our own young, has led to the economic polarisation we see today.
(19) It was an enormous pleasure to be so pampered despite our age.
(20) Twitter has taken some heat for this, creating 1,600 millionaires since its IPO in November 2013, adding to the perception of a pampered tech elite detached from the soul of the city.