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Definition of Mollycoddling
1. mollycoddle [v] - See also: mollycoddle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mollycoddling
Literary usage of Mollycoddling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"... Who knows—but to tell half he knows And what mollycoddling has made us all ;
Who 's certain 'tis easy indeed About all things from May fair to Media, ..."
2. Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt (1913)
"... and was very keenly alive to justice and to courtesy, but which cordially
approved absence of mollycoddling, insistence upon the performance of duty, ..."
3. The Rough Riders by Theodore Roosevelt (1899)
"... matter how good they are; and it is of course the greatest possible mistake
to seek popularity either by showing weakness or by mollycoddling the men. ..."
4. Essays, Historical, and Literary by John Fiske (1902)
"During the administration of John Quincy Adams there was fast growing up a tendency
toward the mollycoddling, old granny theory of government, according to ..."
5. The Works of Theodore Roosevelt by Theodore Roosevelt (1899)
"... matter how good they are; and it is of course the greatest possible mistake
to seek popularity either by showing weakness or by mollycoddling the men. ..."
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