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soft-heartedness
noun as in clemency
Example Sentences
More crucially, despite Zoe’s competence and stamina as a crew member, her fate is the result of her soft-heartedness.
Effervescent chemistry between the secret lovers, who exude winsome soft-heartedness, as opposed to ravenous desire, lifts the liaison above the forced levity that plagues the writing.
Both of Bergdahl’s parents praised what they described as their son’s toughness and his soft-heartedness.
But those high in empathy—who feel another's acutely—suffered for their soft-heartedness.
Modern humanity has given us an unreasoning soft-heartedness, with an extravagant malady of forgiveness which is nothing less than immorality itself, since it on the one hand undermines the general sense of justice, while on the other it prompts and encourages wrong-doing.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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