softhearted

Example Sentences

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“Indeed, we are all softhearted when we see your innocent expression, but that does not mean that we want to become playthings whom you can deceive!” she wrote in a post on Weibo.

From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2021

I'm not being softhearted or I'm not trying to be anything.

From Salon • Nov. 19, 2020

Give me some men who are softhearted men.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2019

Weak but wealthy, smart but softhearted, Tyrion’s ever-variable status was a microcosm of the instability of the Seven Kingdoms.

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2019

He imagined Gaea laughing at his weakness—a demigod too softhearted to kill monsters.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan