softie

In these modern times, Nandor is more of a softie who is often looking for love in all the wrong places.

I think they expect me to come in and just be a softie.

“He’s a softie, such a sweet guy,” Kerry Schmidt, one of five siblings, said of her dad.

"The original shock was horrendous. I'm not a softie but I had tears in my eyes," Robert says.

His daughter, Farai Mlotshwa - a property developer and the eldest of his nine children by two wives - once described him as a "softie".