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Coddle meaning
To treat gently or with great care. | To cook slowly in hot water that is below the boiling point. | To exercise excessive or damaging authority in an attempt to protect. To overprotect.
Example sentences (9)
President Joe Biden and other Western leaders have done nothing but coddle Lula and the region’s other Marxist leaders while treating the São Paulo Forum as a debating society.
Most of the cancellations, on the other hand, have been on territory not predisposed to coddle the GOP nominee.
But his willingness to ignore the U.N.’s own evidence and coddle powerful countries may fatally damage one of the U.N.’s proven and most effective weapons for protecting the world’s children.
Few cars can coddle like a well-equipped 2020 Mercedes-Benz E-Class.
Trust your inner knowing about when to coddle and care for yourself and when to challenge and push yourself.
I think sometimes it’s just to coddle somebody, put your arm around them and say, ‘Hey, here’s what you have to do to be successful.
Oh please, it’s not the employers job the coddle the employee.
Well, the Dimwit staying true to form - coddle the dictators and tyrants.
His proposed policies mimic sanctuary cities and adopts their failed “coddle the criminal” mentalities (not to mention using language straight off of Ms. Wall’s website).