as in spoiled
to treat with great or excessive care
a luxury spa where guests are cosseted with no expense spared
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Recent Examples of cosseted
While most art cars since the fifth installment had been cosseted, this one was present at the starting line for the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans.
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Trinity Francis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
While its remote location at the top of the world makes flying and staying here expensive, Greenland isn’t for luxury lovers accustomed to being cosseted.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2025
Trinity Francis, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
While its remote location at the top of the world makes flying and staying here expensive, Greenland isn’t for luxury lovers accustomed to being cosseted.
—Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosseted
Verb
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The bad inning spoiled an otherwise strong pitching effort by A’s starter Jeffrey Springs, whose record dipped to 3-4.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
18 May 2026
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De Vliegende Hollander is a boat ride-meets-coaster with a few exhilarating surprises, best not spoiled by a YouTube ride-through.—
Zachary Laks,
Travel + Leisure,
15 May 2026
Verb
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Across the manosphere, however, young people are told that before feminism ruined everything, women used to be cherished and pampered by their husbands.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
14 May 2026
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Celebrities to have already been pampered at the suite include house ambassadors Natalie Portman, Charlize Theron, Johnny Depp and Robert Pattinson.—
Jennifer Weil,
Footwear News,
12 May 2026
Verb
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Perhaps the latter must be indulged a bit to build a platform for the former—forests sometimes need to burn in order to thrive.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
24 Apr. 2026
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His appetite for complexity was increasingly indulged as a means of branding cities and institutions, and his novel forms were deployed as blunt metaphors to absorb and obscure contradictions rather than negotiate them in material and spatial terms.—
Julian Rose,
Artforum,
26 Mar. 2026
Verb
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Composers from more stable lands nursed their own fears.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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Somebody nursed this dingo back to health after his kangaroo encounter.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
18 May 2026
Verb
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No matter how much his disability impacted his daily routine, Nic notes that his parents never coddled him.—
Zoey Lyttle,
PEOPLE,
13 May 2026
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That includes dishes such as shrimp po-boy toast with caviar, coddled egg with andouille and tasso, and old bay hollandaise.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
27 Apr. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Cosseted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosseted. Accessed 22 May. 2026.
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