Definition of "mollycoddles" []

• Plural form of mollycoddle. (noun)

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• "When he said that one's ideas were "rot," when he spoke with contempt of "mollycoddles" -- then indeed one suffered in soul, and had to go back to Shelley and Ruskin to renew one's courage."
• "Elsewhere, he worried about producing "mollycoddles instead of vigorous men.""
• "The biggest factor, of course, is how this political class mollycoddles the voter base of unions."