What does cosseted mean?
Cosseted means Pampered..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Pampered..
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.
Independent schools churn out teenagers who are cosseted, snobbish and unable to open a can of beans, Michael Gove’s wife has suggested.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon […]is sitting sagely in a restaurant that resembles a mountain chalet yet is located in the cosseted 7th arrondissement of Paris.
Use cosseted when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cosseted means Pampered..
Common synonyms include spoiled, coddled.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
a cosseted childhood
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