(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.
Overly
Definition:
(a.) Careless; negligent; inattentive; superfical; not thorough.
(a.) Excessive; too much.
(adv.) In an overly manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Irradiation of the skin overlying the median nerve at the wrist in humans with a low power (1 mW; 632.5 nm) helium-neon laser produced a somatosensory evoked potential obtained at Erb's point.
(2) Moreover, the mucoid substances of the sensillum lymph are probably involved in water conservation, since sensilla are prone to water loss, because the overlying cuticle must be permeable to the chemical stimuli.
(3) These injections led to epidermal hyperplasia in areas overlying the irritant and the effect was most significant when the irritant was placed in the upper dermis.
(4) Eight of 47 LSNs overlying the posterior superior iliac spines (PSIS) were tender.
(5) We conclude that: (1) two of the previously proposed criteria for diagnosis of entrainment (fixed fusion on the surface electrocardiogram and a first postpacing interval equal to the paced cycle length) are overly restrictive criteria for definition of "entrainment" of VT, (2) analysis of endocardial recordings from the site of origin of tachycardia during attempted entrainment of VT is useful for documenting the presence of entrainment, and (3) such analysis provides a basis for the understanding of surface electrocardiographic phenomenon associated with entrainment.
(6) The rapidity of obtaining the results (within one hour), the complete absence of untoward reactions to the radiopharmaceuticals, the much lower frequency of subtle or indeterminate results, the ability to render useful information in the presence of moderate jaundice and the lack of interference from overlying intestinal contents establishes these radionuclide agents as superior to both radiographic oral and intravenous cholangiography in the investigation of the acute abdomen.
(7) Rather, the two participated in a clever spoof of the show’s overly serious and die-hard tone.
(8) At the former site the membrane overlying the bud showed an electron opaque thickening which imparted to the mature particle an asymmetrical appearance.
(9) An autopsy case of a 62-year-old woman with a poorly differentiated, aggressive form of adenoid squamous cell carcinoma arising in the skin overlying the right breast was studied.
(10) Porous polyethylene was thus better incorporated into the soft tissues than silicone rubber as long as the overlying soft tissues were not stressed by an oversized implant or inadequate soft tissue coverage.
(11) The interconnected central lacteals in the villi overlying the interfollicular area were connected with the lymphatic plexus in the area.
(12) The overally mortality in the first 24 hrs after the cardiac catheterisation for the first year of life was 1.83%.
(13) An overly bureaucratic approach to midwifery is not just letting mothers down – it's putting the whole profession under strain.
(14) In the latter case, the movement of lectin-receptor complexes occurs from membrane overlying peripheral microtubules into filament-rich pseudopods that exclude microtubules.
(15) Four grades of pressure can be recognized on the basis of pathophysiology of soft tissue breakdown overlying bony prominences.
(16) Sebum excretion rate measurements overlying an open comedone (blackhead) were significantly lower than those obtained from normal skin.
(17) It occurred when granular pneumocytes re-epithelialized along the luminal surface of intra-alveolar debris overlying denuded alveolar epithelial basal laminae.
(18) An antepartum diagnosis of vasa previa was considered in a patient in whom ultrasound revealed pulsatile loops of cord overlying the cervical os.
(19) A high proportion of these sebaceous tumors (69%) exhibited specifically-associated hyperplasia of the overlying epidermis.
(20) Histochemical methods disclose that the enzyme is originally located at the tip of the head but subsequently remains with the surface overlying the mitochondrion during translocation.