solicitude
Example Sentences
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Indeed, goodness seems like too active a word for this novel; the principal virtue, instead, is solicitude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
In his review, Roger Ebert marveled at Bates’ talent for oscillating from “sweet solicitude to savage scorn.”
From Salon ● Mar. 23, 2025
We’d already called for a Lyft so we didn’t take them up on the offer but were still touched by their solicitude.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 15, 2024
Humans’ selective solicitude for endangered species was well illustrated by George F. Will in a 2017 Washington Post column inveighing against the Endangered Species Act.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2023
I told them I’d rather walk, thanks, and backed out of the apartment, smiling, practically delirious, my face burning under the collective gaze of cool, curious solicitude.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
Vocabulary lists containing solicitude
Frankenstein
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Pride and Prejudice
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The Federalist Papers, No. 1 by Alexander Hamilton
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