mollycoddling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of mollycoddle

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An act of excessive pampering.

   “Such prissy mollycoddlings of audience expectations were shortly to come under heavyweight siege from a variety of filmmakers in the 1950s – not least the aforementioned Otto Preminger.”