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Synonyms for softhearted


Grammar : Adj
Spell : sawft-hahr-tid, soft-
Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɔftˈhɑr tɪd, ˈsɒft-

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Définition of softhearted

Origin :
  • also softhearted, 1590s, from soft (adj.) "tender" + hearted. Related: Soft-heartedly; soft-heartedness.
  • adj tender
Example sentences :
  • She was not going into this fight soft-handed or softhearted.
  • Extract from : « A Bed of Roses » by W. L. George
  • As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.
  • Extract from : « State of the Union Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt » by Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • I am quite aware that there are lots of softhearted people who will say I ought never to have allowed Danjuro to do what he did.
  • Extract from : « The Air Pirate » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
  • But he shall find out that it was only a child, only a silly, softhearted baby he played with down here.
  • Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • On the 28th Grey again expressed one of his softhearted propositions for peace.
  • Extract from : « New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 » by Various
  • For active brutality is not popular with Forsytes; they are too circumspect, and, on the whole, too softhearted.
  • Extract from : « The Forsyte Saga, Complete » by John Galsworthy
  • Such an experience as this would just about kill any softhearted person, I should think.
  • Extract from : « The Fifth Wheel » by Olive Higgins Prouty
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