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From: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: the opposite of "bashing"
Message-ID: <4850@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 13 Dec 88 07:51:55 GMT
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Reply-To: eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Eliot Handelman)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <33277@bbn.COM> dsill@RELAY-NSWC.NAVY.MIL (Dave Sill) writes:
>  Is there an opposite to the term "bashing" meaning an unfair,

Try "mollycoddle," as in "He comes home for dinner 3 days late and 
you mollycoddle him!"

Incidentally why's this in comp.emacs?