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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cosset .
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Examples
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Academia remains the most bloated and cossetted institution in American life.
Matthew Yglesias » Hatch: “Utah is Going to Get By Fine” Without Stimulus Money 2009
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If Jordan were pressured to become a democracy (perhaps as a constitutional monarchy, so the current “king” and his retinue could still enjoy a cossetted lifestyle), it would become a Palestinian state.
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Or were the republicanists right all along - that she's just a rather spoilt and cossetted token?
Labour Play The Race Card Again Newmania 2008
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Conrad Williams spread before me Philip's rarified, cossetted and pampered world and the awesome talent of the pianist with precision, and balanced it all with the precariousness of a glamorous world peopled by plenty of shallow, self-serving prima donnas.
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It was pleasant to be there with the eased and cossetted beast, and to be aware of the stirring of his contented neighbours in the other stalls.
A River So Long 2010
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And Rangel would be their Exhibit A in what the GOP would claim are the excesses of an out-of-touch and cossetted Democratic majority.
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I think it depends on which corner of society the child is raised in, but I do think we should give children the freedom to take risks and learn by experience rather than be cossetted and protected from the world.
Yatterings » Of Infinite Attics and Rediscovered Time – Garry Kilworth interviewed 2007
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These the very olden days when we went back to the local maternity home and were cossetted and pampered for a whole ten days post-delivery.
Happy Birthday to... 2007
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These the very olden days when we went back to the local maternity home and were cossetted and pampered for a whole ten days post-delivery.
Happy Birthday to... 2007
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Because he has been cossetted and protected by the media, it has taken us 40 years to find out.
jaltcoh commented on the word cossetted
"If someone is cosseted, everything possible is done for them and they are protected from anything unpleasant.
Our kind of travel is definitely not suitable for people who expect to be cosseted.
= pamper
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed"
" cosset
to give a lot of attention to making someone comfortable and to protecting them from anything unpleasant:
Children need to be cosseted.
DISAPPROVING The country has been cosseted (= too protected) by the government for so long that people have forgotten how to take responsibility for themselves."
January 27, 2009