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softhearted

a. 1 gentle; kind; sympathetic. 2 Easily moved to sorrow or pity. alt. 1 gentle; kind; sympathetic. 2 Easily moved to sorrow or pity.

WordNet
softhearted

adj. easily moved to pity or sorrow; "a softhearted judge" [syn: soft-boiled] [ant: hardhearted]

Usage examples of "softhearted".

Yet in the end, it all became her fault, and the image of softhearted, softheaded Ky Vatta had another layer painted on.

If he had not stopped to tidy off his desk, if he had not been a softhearted ass and agreed to stick around while Eric had one of his late, long, boozy, and erotic lunches, he would have been out of there before this call came in.

And any girl softhearted enough to cry for John Reddy who'd blasted an adult man away with a gun (and who'd screwed more and women, including a certain hot-eyed cocktail waitress at the Old Red Mill Inn, Art had reason to believe, than he, Art, personally knew) was a sweetheart, you had to love her.

SCENT agents were supposed to remain inconspicuous, and a softhearted medieval bourgeois was a contradiction in terms.

However, upon the death of the Baron's father, Dmitri Harkonnen, the old Emperor had, through some mental deficiency, granted the seat of power to the softhearted Abulurd, who had managed to decimate spice production in a mere seven years.

They were reluctant, the Ephesians being rather simplemindedly softhearted, but their fear of the plague was stronger than their sympathy for one useless beggar.

Birds skittered about picking at the seeds some softhearted soul had strewn for them.