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compassionate

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Example Sentences

She is investigating ways to help people feel hopeful, inspired and compassionate about political challenges, since these emotions can motivate action without triggering stress and anxiety.

“There is nothing compassionate about letting these individuals live in filth and squalor, rather than getting them the help that they need.”

We need to provide a safe and compassionate harbor for them.

From Salon

Because the term “involuntary treatment” has a negative connotation, they talk now of “compassionate care.”

From Salon

“We are going to get tough on those that are dealing drugs. And we are going to be compassionate, but tough, about the conditions of our streets as well.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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