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| 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
- 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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