compassionate

“When I talk about compassionate accountability, it’s not just a campaign slogan for me,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Your response to his three children’s accusations is a compassionate one.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

"If there's one thing I've learned it's that compassionate care makes such a difference to families."

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Is it compassionate to leave people detached from reality out on the cold street, or to police when something terrible happens?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

I want to tell Len how unfair this is, but then he’ll know I remember what it is to be compassionate and kind.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Her punishment was regarded as a creditable act of justice, and the King was compassionated as a sufferer from abominable ingratitude.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude

He won his confidence, genuinely compassionated his anxieties, and presently pledged himself to a most kindly office—the care and provision in future for the child soon to be fatherless; long before this time motherless.

From The Square of Sevens An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note by Edward Prime-Stevenson

Not so here; he—or she, to speak more properly—is tenderly treated and compassionated; all the little blandishments of society showered on her.

From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

And in truth the wretched young man was much to be compassionated.

From The Haunted Homestead A Novel by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

In the market-place I compassionated an unfortunate thief minus his right hand and left leg.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea

Mr. Hearne is hardly sympathetic toward those who wrong women, but I hear “Consent” as compassionating all of us who have been bequeathed unequal, curdled social relations.

From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2017

“A body can’t play a symphony next to a man, without compassionating with his woes.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

"That'll do, doctor, that'll do," said he, with a most compassionating smile at the other's ignorance.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Charles James Lever

I slept that night in a prison, and ate of prison fare,—ravenously and eagerly too; so much so that the turnkey, compassionating me, fetched me some of his own supper to satisfy my cravings.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever

How long this might have lasted I know not, had not a person in the dogana, compassionating my dullness, stepped up to me, and whispered into my ear to give the searcher a few paulos.

From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie