Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Easily moved; tender.
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- adjective
Gentle ;kind ;sympathetic . - adjective Easily moved to
sorrow orpity .
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Examples
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First Impression: Kathy is described as a softhearted and motherly woman who likes to please.
5-Star Baby Name Advisor Bruce Lansky 2008
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First Impression: Kathy is described as a softhearted and motherly woman who likes to please.
5-Star Baby Name Advisor Bruce Lansky 2008
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This particular saleslady scored big off a certain softhearted photographer of my acquaintance.
Sharing the wealth 2000
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This particular saleslady scored big off a certain softhearted photographer of my acquaintance.
Sharing the wealth 2000
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And one of the leading newspapers here, the "Financial Times," which is not known as a softhearted liberal rag has said that this torture has really undermined America's moral authority abroad.
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And one of the leading newspapers here, the "Financial Times," which is not known as a softhearted liberal rag has said that this torture has really undermined America's moral authority abroad.
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It is marvellous how little what are called softhearted people sometimes do for the world, while fond of talking of its wrongs and miseries; how much, on the contrary, is sometimes done by rough and plain people, who say nothing of their sympathies or affections.
Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons Preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, 1866-76. 1823-1886 1877
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Believing that most men, especially those not too old, were apt to be kind-hearted or maybe "softhearted," she climbed from her hiding place, and timidly tapped Frank on his astonished shoulder.
The Girl Scout Pioneers or Winning the First B. C. Lilian Garis 1913
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Hardheaded and softhearted, she soon earns the nickname of “the vampire suffragette.”
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR MAY 9TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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Hardheaded and softhearted, she soon earns the nickname of “the vampire suffragette.”
WEEKLY BOOK RELEASES FOR MAY 9TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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