The young boy was cosseted, over-supervised and beaten so that he was weak and morose. "Jasmine" has been described as a "cosseted, overly protected little girl". He marries the pretty and cosseted Rosalie Vanderpoel, the daughter of an American millionaire. Arthur's words signaled that nothing dramatic would be done to upset the paper's cosseted world. You play the pygmy, carried about, cosseted, smirked at . . . .