(n.) A lamb reared without the aid of the dam. Hence: A pet, in general.
(v. t.) To treat as a pet; to fondle.
Example Sentences:
(1) You could have left acting at a young age, already rich and cosseted, to live an authentic life.
(2) In other words, the noise surrounding this debate, not to mention the TV duel, will only partly be about whether Britain should be in Europe or not: the rest of it, one would imagine, will centre on the issue of immigration, both in terms of its links with the EU, and as a public concern that informs just about every other area of policy – and, implicitly or otherwise, the sense a lot of people have that we are governed by a homogeneous, well-heeled, cosseted bunch of politicians, and among the only people who offer any kind of alternative is Farage, complete with his pint and fag.
(3) Maréchal-Le Pen, who grew up cosseted among the close-knit clan in Jean-Marie Le Pen’s grandiose suburban manor house – where she still lives with her husband, baby daughter and various relatives – holds an increasingly important role in the Le Pen family soap opera.
(4) If universities are the prestigious eldest, and schools the cosseted youngest, then further education (FE) is the unloved middle child of our education system – undervalued and often neglected.
(5) Rail operators on short-term franchises have been cosseted by the state, which bails them out when things go wrong and hasn't encouraged them to invest or keep costs down.
(6) That is another trait of the cosseted self-delusionists: they are as quick to forget as they are to "move on", as the expression goes.
(7) In my cosseted complacency, I had mistakenly believed that modern Scotland was a good place to practise the curious rituals of my cantankerous, old Catholic faith.
(8) It’s so routine.” Media coverage of climate change in Fiji doesn’t have the luxury of wallowing in the sort of cosseted denialism seen in the US, Britain or Australia.
(9) He has attacked Maréchal-Le Pen as “the most dangerous of the three Le Pens”, slamming her for her “extremism” and her cosseted upbringing at her grandfather’s posh manor estate outside Paris.
(10) He was very cosseted, and that is what we captured.
(11) Using our previously described Haydée semipackaging cell line (F. L. Cosset, C. Legras, Y. Chebloune, P. Savatier, P. Thoraval, J. L. Thomas, J. Samarut, V. M. Nigon, and G. Verdier, J. Virol.
(12) I’m not happy until every contour of my lower half is cosseted by fabric, my britches foisted on to my legs with a combination of Vaseline, washing-up liquid, and the strength of two assistants.
(13) This is partly because many competitors are by definition much closer to everyday reality than some of their more cosseted sporting contemporaries.
(14) As cosseted corporations have opted for a cheap, often migrant workforce instead of investing their cash mountains, the result has been mass underemployment, agency working, short and zero-hours contracts, bogus self-employment and rampant low pay.
(15) These cosseted beneficiaries of an iniquitous order are also quick to ostracise the stray dissenter among them, as the case of Greece reveals.
(16) Meanwhile, the ever cosseted grey voters are kept happy by his decision to allow them to pass on their tax-free ISA allowances to spouses when they die.
(17) Yet again, this spoiled nonentity is cosseted by his party: though he stands as an “independent”, the Conservatives will try to save his bacon by setting no candidate against him, to avoid splitting their vote.
(18) The thinktank authors decry the NHS as "an outdated, cosseted and unaffordable healthcare system".
(19) Perry, who took a seven-year break from her career in management consulting when her children were young, said mothers were often behind youngsters' cosseting because their own careers struggle when they start a family.
(20) The way he tells it, he was so cosseted that he had never come into contact with working-class life.
Indulge
Definition:
(v. t.) To be complacent toward; to give way to; not to oppose or restrain
(v. t.) to give free course to; to give one's self up to; as, to indulge sloth, pride, selfishness, or inclinations;
(v. t.) to yield to the desire of; to gratify by compliance; to humor; to withhold restraint from; as, to indulge children in their caprices or willfulness; to indulge one's self with a rest or in pleasure.
(v. t.) To grant as by favor; to bestow in concession, or in compliance with a wish or request.
(v. i.) To indulge one's self; to gratify one's tastes or desires; esp., to give one's self up (to); to practice a forbidden or questionable act without restraint; -- followed by in, but formerly, also, by to.
Example Sentences:
(1) Byrne's Nursie had the same indefatigable garrulousness, the same sense that she knew all the worst things about her charge – Miranda Richardson's bibulous Queen Elizabeth – so Gloriana and the rest had to indulge her.
(2) The lender will also have to take a 5% hit, to ensure it does not indulge in offering risky loans.
(3) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
(4) I believe that both Nan and I had such a strong marriage that it was possible.” And she was prepared to indulge his experiments?
(5) Keith Richards , after all, used to indulge in speedballs of cocaine and heroin with such regularity that he cheerily referred to the toxic cocktail as "the breakfast of champions".
(6) He confessed to over-indulgence in this pleasure at some stages of his life, and to the recreational use of drugs.
(7) When election strategists brought in to pour over Ghani’s speeches told him to swear off coffee on rally days to strengthen his voice, he gave up one of his very few indulgences immediately.
(8) Early opportunities to indulge his skill for making unctuousness compelling came in the roles of a school snitch in the Al Pacino vehicle Scent of a Woman (1992), for which Hoffman auditioned five times.
(9) The chaddi [underwear] symbolises vulgarity, something Muthalik's men indulged in when they molested the girls in Mangalore, and pink adds shock value.
(10) This was the logic that initially led the coalition to reject Heathrow expansion, so why is it now, indulged if not quite supported by the opposition, drifting inexorably towards a new runway in the south-east?
(11) This is a character deliriously doomed to repetitive self-indulgence.
(12) They cut taxes on corporate Britain while indulging in entirely destructive gimmicks such as scrapping the 10p tax rate.
(13) However, it seems that other types of viruses (e.g., tobamoviruses, tombusviruses) do not indulge in regular gene exchange and that common gene pools, distinct from each other, do not occur.
(14) John Byrom, a lazy, self-indulgent 18th-century versifier, had three black hedgehogs on his coat of arms.
(15) There were also significantly elevated risks associated with occasional indulgence in these four habits.
(16) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
(17) It was another popular choice at a closing night ceremony indulgently received by the Cannes crowd.
(18) This is not about benevolent indulgence but achievement of genuine equality in support and contribution.
(19) This idea is quite contrary to the traditional view that the ancient Maya were a contemplative people, who did not indulge in ritual ecstasy.
(20) Smith responded by saying he would not “indulge in gossip”.