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bleeding-heart

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In England, a name of the wall-flower, Cheiranthus Cheiri.
  • noun A common name of some species of Dicentra, especially D. spectabilis from China, from the shape of the flowers.
  • noun A name sometimes applied to cultivated forms of Colocasia with colored leaves.
  • noun Same as coral-creeper.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Any of several species of bird in the genus Gallicolumba of the pigeon family, native to the Philippines, characterised by a red patch on the plumage of the breast.
  • noun A person considered to be over-sympathetic to the supposed plight of the underprivileged or exploited.
  • adjective Considered to be over-sympathetic to the supposed plight of the underprivileged or exploited.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From bleeding + heart

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Examples

  • I still came out liberal, but with a liberalism based more on cheerful goodwill than on bleeding-heart sentiment.

    Matthew Yglesias » Influential Books 2010

  • What happens when the first bleeding-heart decides their confessions were coerced and lets them go, here, in America?

    Administration critics slam civilian trials for 9/11 suspects 2009

  • I get the distinct feeling that the LCS membership is likewise confused as to what these folks running their social club cum bleeding-heart community dispenser of straws to elephants is up to.

    The Lake Chapala Society 2009

  • ADAM: Broadway actor Bill Heck will guest-star as a young, bleeding-heart legal-aide attorney who falls for Christine Baranski's Diane.

    Mega Buzz: A Grey's Non-Triangle and Family Reunions on Bones and Hawaii Five-0 2011

  • I get the distinct feeling that the LCS membership is likewise confused as to what these folks running their social club cum bleeding-heart community dispenser of straws to elephants is up to.

    The Lake Chapala Society 2009

  • I get the distinct feeling that the LCS membership is likewise confused as to what these folks running their social club cum bleeding-heart community dispenser of straws to elephants is up to.

    The Lake Chapala Society 2009

  • This is a man who was a bleeding-heart liberal FDR Democrat who always stood up for the underdog.

    Joan E. Dowlin: I'm Not Worried About His Soul Joan E. Dowlin 2012

  • Affluent bleeding-heart types are almost sure to get the system; cold misanthropes are certain not to.

    Pedestrian Detection Dan Neil 2011

  • Billed as "Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's the Trial of Hamlet," the production featured real-life celebrity lawyers including the deputy district attorney who's prosecuting Lindsay Lohan for shoplifting and, as a bleeding-heart juror, Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt.

    Supreme Night Court: Judges Relax By Trying the Fictitious and the Dead Jess Bravin 2011

  • I get the distinct feeling that the LCS membership is likewise confused as to what these folks running their social club cum bleeding-heart community dispenser of straws to elephants is up to.

    The Lake Chapala Society 2009

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