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Definition of soft-hearted in English: soft-heartedadjective Kind and compassionate. 仁慈的；富有同情心的 you ought to turn her away but you were always soft-hearted Example sentencesExamples - I am probably what I consider to be one of the new generations of soft-hearted parents who like to be intimately involved in every aspect of my children's lives.
- As a young girl Margo had been soft-hearted, always ready to help someone in trouble, always picking up pals.
- Mommy isn't strong enough to protect the family and is too soft-hearted to discipline the children.
- Now, I'm very soft-hearted and happen to know that my meat appears by special act of creation divinely shrink-wrapped on Tesco shelves.
- He's a soft-hearted romantic behind his leather and greased-lightning exterior.
- Its hero is a man of silent morality from a different era, wide-eyed, soft-hearted and out of place.
- There are plenty of soft-hearted guys around who'll try to help out a damsel who's clearly in distress.
- At home, her mother continually berates her soft-hearted salesman father for what she sees as the poor business skills that keep them on the edge of poverty.
- Darker and more harrowing is Saved starring Scottish veterans Irene McCallum and Edith McArthur in a poignant tale of a soft-hearted young nurse on a dementia ward.
- I was surprised to read that one of those soft-hearted Cornish fisherman had put a lobster back in the sea after catching it in one of his pots, because he thought it looked tired and deserved a break.
- It seems to have attracted a nice range of comments from soft-hearted animal lovers and those who um, think everyone else's opinions are a load of rubbish.
- The soft-hearted lady of the lamp tended tirelessly to the wounded of the Crimean War and laid the foundations of modern nursing.
- When the matron of an African orphan farm decided that the soft-hearted bachelor Mr J L B Matekoni adopt two of her charges, one in a wheelchair, he meekly agreed.
- My husband has his opinions, of course, but I'm too soft-hearted to tell her the truth.
- She is very kind, very soft-hearted and always eager to help.
- He could not believe how that soft-hearted man had even risen to the post he occupied.
- Either it was a case of beggars can't be choosers or the interview panel had not found me too old, white, middle class and soft-hearted after all.
- More important, Moravia's novels offer a bracing counterpoint to today's soft-hearted and headed fiction.
- He's taken in by the soft-hearted Lilo, a young girl with a passion for animals.
- Although 55 cats for which she cared have been adopted in the last 16 months, not every cat the soft-hearted Alcorn takes in is adoptable.
Synonyms kind, tender-hearted, kind-hearted, mild, tender, kindly, gentle, sympathetic, affectionate, generous, charitable, compassionate, indulgent, humane, lenient, merciful, beneficent, benign, benignant, benevolent
Derivativesnounˌsɒftˈhɑːtɪdnəs Even though the end of the 18th century was hardly a time of soft-heartedness towards society's more unfortunate members, politicians were genuinely aghast at the statistics which started to emerge. Example sentencesExamples - I have learned that soft-heartedness means, simply, that you have learned to live inside a lovely truth: that giving is the same as receiving, and that learning to receive is learning to give.
- ‘I heard them after the game say that we were denying them four points during the match… that's the ruthlessness of it, there was no soft-heartedness, and say ‘let's give Carlow a point.’
- Benny plays small-town lawyer Richard Clark, whose soft-heartedness and sense of justice loses him case after case.
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