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形容詞

cosseted (comparative more cosseted, superlative most cosseted)

1. Pampered.

   Synonyms: spoiled, coddled

   a cosseted childhood

   • 2001 March 17, Maya Jaggi, “George and his dragons”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

   • 2014 March 6, Nicola Woolcock, “Private pupils are cosseted, says Gove wife.”, in The Times‎:

     Independent schools churn out teenagers who are cosseted, snobbish and unable to open a can of beans, Michael Gove’s wife has suggested.

   • 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:

     Jean-Luc Mélenchon […] is sitting sagely in a restaurant that resembles a mountain chalet yet is located in the cosseted 7th arrondissement of Paris.

使用する際の注意点

The adjective cosseted is frequently written with two T’s: cossetted.

派生語

関連する語

• cosseting

動詞

cosseted

1. simple past and past participle of cosset

アナグラム

• cestodes, codesets