Thesaurus / softhearted
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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.
THE AIR PIRATECYRIL ARTHUR EDWARD RANGER GULLErle raved about him to my grandfather; but then Erle always raves about peoplehe is terribly softhearted.
WEE WIFIEROSA NOUCHETTE CAREYBut he shall find out that it was only a child, only a silly, softhearted baby he played with down here.
ROBERT ELSMEREMRS. HUMPHRY WARDOn the 28th Grey again expressed one of his softhearted propositions for peace.
NEW YORK TIMES CURRENT HISTORY: THE EUROPEAN WAR FROM THE BEGINNING TO MARCH 1915, VOL 1, NO. 2VARIOUSFor active brutality is not popular with Forsytes; they are too circumspect, and, on the whole, too softhearted.
THE FORSYTE SAGA, COMPLETEJOHN GALSWORTHYAll our investigators are women, and women are very softhearted.
CRIMES OF CHARITYKONRAD BERCOVICISuch an experience as this would just about kill any softhearted person, I should think.
THE FIFTH WHEELOLIVE HIGGINS PROUTYIt is hard to say whether he was merely working on Halby that he be true to the girl, or was himself softhearted for the moment.
ROMANY OF THE SNOWSGILBERT PARKERAs a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are softhearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.
STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESSES OF FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTFRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELTShe was not going into this fight soft-handed or softhearted.
A BED OF ROSESW. L. GEORGEWORDS RELATED TO SOFTHEARTED
- allowing
- amiable
- assuaging
- assuasive
- being big
- benign
- benignant
- charitable
- clement
- compassionate
- complaisant
- compliant
- condoning
- easy
- easygoing
- emollient
- excusing
- favoring
- forbearing
- forgiving
- gentle
- going easy on
- good-natured
- humoring
- indulgent
- kind
- kindly
- letting
- live with
- loving
- merciful
- mild
- mollycoddling
- obliging
- pampering
- pardoning
- permitting
- soft
- soft-shell
- softhearted
- sparing
- spoiling
- sympathetic
- tender
- tolerant
- yielding
- all heart
- beneficent
- benign
- benignant
- bleeding heart
- charitable
- clement
- compassionate
- condoning
- easygoing
- feeling
- forbearing
- forgiving
- generous
- gentle
- gracious
- heart in right place
- humane
- humanitarian
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- kindly
- lenient
- liberal
- mild
- pardoning
- pitiful
- pitying
- soft
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- sympathetic
- tender
- tenderhearted
- tolerant
- acknowledging
- active
- alive
- answering
- awake
- aware
- bleeding-heart
- compassionate
- conscious
- forthcoming
- impressionable
- influenceable
- kindhearted
- open
- passionate
- perceptive
- persuadable
- reactive
- receptive
- replying
- respondent
- sensible
- sensile
- sensitive
- sentient
- sharp
- softhearted
- susceptible
- susceptive
- sympathetic
- tender
- warm
- warmhearted
- affected
- affectionate
- bathetic
- corny
- demonstrative
- dewy-eyed
- dreamy
- effusive
- gushing
- gushy
- idealistic
- impressionable
- inane
- insipid
- jejune
- languishing
- lovey-dovey
- loving
- maudlin
- mawkish
- moonstruck
- mushy
- nostalgic
- overacted
- overemotional
- passionate
- pathetic
- romantic
- rosewater
- saccharine
- sappy
- silly
- simpering
- sloppy
- slushy
- soapy
- sobby
- soft
- softhearted
- soppy
- sugary
- sweet
- syrupy
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tender
- touching
- vapid
- visionary
- weepy
- affected
- affectionate
- corny
- demonstrative
- dewy-eyed
- dreamy
- effusive
- gushing
- gushy
- histrionic
- histrionical
- idealistic
- impressionable
- inane
- insipid
- jejune
- languishing
- lovey-dovey
- loving
- maudlin
- moonstruck
- mushy
- nostalgic
- overacted
- overemotional
- passionate
- pathetic
- rosewater
- saccharine
- sappy
- schmaltzy
- silly
- simpering
- sloppy
- slushy
- soapy
- soft
- softhearted
- sugary
- sweet
- syrupy
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tender
- touching
- vapid
- visionary
- weepy
- affected
- affectionate
- bathetic
- corny
- demonstrative
- dewy-eyed
- dreamy
- effusive
- gushing
- gushy
- idealistic
- impressionable
- inane
- insipid
- jejune
- languishing
- lovey-dovey
- loving
- maudlin
- mawkish
- moonstruck
- mushy
- nostalgic
- overacted
- overemotional
- passionate
- pathetic
- romantic
- rosewater
- saccharine
- sappy
- schmaltzy
- silly
- simpering
- sloppy
- soapy
- sobby
- soft
- softhearted
- soppy
- sugary
- sweet
- syrupy
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tender
- touching
- vapid
- visionary
- weepy
- affected
- affectionate
- bathetic
- corny
- demonstrative
- dewy-eyed
- dreamy
- effusive
- gushing
- gushy
- idealistic
- impressionable
- inane
- insipid
- jejune
- languishing
- lovey-dovey
- loving
- maudlin
- mawkish
- moonstruck
- mushy
- nostalgic
- overacted
- overemotional
- passionate
- pathetic
- romantic
- rosewater
- saccharine
- sappy
- schmaltzy
- silly
- simpering
- sloppy
- slushy
- soapy
- soft
- softhearted
- soppy
- sugary
- sweet
- syrupy
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- tender
- touching
- vapid
- visionary
- weepy
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