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cosseted en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. Pampered.
    • Jean-Luc Mélenchon […]is sitting sagely in a restaurant that resembles a mountain chalet yet is located in the cosseted 7th arrondissement of Paris. 2025 May 3, Leila Abboud, “Lunch with the FT: Jean-Luc Mélenchon”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
    • a cosseted childhood
    • When the Parisian-born George Steiner went to Chicago University after the second world war, he found himself sharing a room with an ex-paratrooper, who stared in disbelief at "a creature so obviously cosseted, sheltered, formally decked out, book-laden, as I was", Steiner recalled. 2001 March 17, Maya Jaggi, “George and his dragons”, in The Guardian:
    • Independent schools churn out teenagers who are cosseted, snobbish and unable to open a can of beans, Michael Gove’s wife has suggested. 2014 March 6, Nicola Woolcock, “Private pupils are cosseted, says Gove wife.”, in The Times:

Forms

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most cosseted Degree=Sup lexicographic
more cosseted Degree=Cmp lexicographic
cossetted alternative lexicographic

Deriveds

uncosseted · overcosseted

Relateds

cosseting

Synonyms

coddled · spoiled

Translations (2)

de verhätschelt (pampered) · de verwöhnt (pampered)

cosseted en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of cosset
    form of cosset

Forms

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cossetted alternative lexicographic