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Meanings of softie in English

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A person who is weak and excessively sentimental.

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        Examples for "softy"
        1
        He is a bit of a softy from the look of him.
        The Lost Naval Papers
        2
        HE is tall, softy spoken, warm but not effusive, confident without swagger.
        The Irish Times
        3
        Newhouse is a softy spoken human rights lawyer and former local mayor.
        Reuters
        4
        The man who saw things neither was a softy, and no proper citizen.
        The Patrician
        5
        Mel was a real softy, with shining shoes, slick hair, and all that.
        Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12...
        Usage of softie in English
        1
        On the other hand, Jack was sensible and no softie on lawbreakers.
        A journey: my political life
        2
        I didn't raise any daughter of mine to be such a softie.
        The athena project: a thriller
        3
        Since almost losing Ric to the Karnak vampires, I'd become a real softie.
        Silver zombie: delilah street: paranormal investigator
        4
        But why is this animal-loving softie so good at playing the hard man?
        The Guardian
        5
        I'm just a big softie when it comes to the Brachiosaur.
        The South African
        6
        She was a softie to all the staff and will be missed big time.
        Independent.ie
        7
        Underneath all the showbiz bluster, he was an old softie.
        The Guardian
        8
        Mother Teresa. -Keane insisting that he was the softie in the managerial set-up
        The Irish Times
        9
        As hard-nosed as she acted sometimes, I now knew she was really a softie underneath.
        The lost girls: three friends. four continents. one unconvention...
        10
        Powell was no softie when it came to empire.
        The Irish Times
        11
        An officer's son can never stop being a softie.
        Chef
        12
        But for all his grimacing and those thousand-yard stares, Eminem may be a softie at heart.
        The Guardian
        13
        Yeah, well, the building manager's an old softie.
        Spiral
        14
        I then glimpse a quality that Chang's fast-talking, street-smart sassy persona keeps hidden: he is a softie.
        The Guardian
        15
        There was no doubt that he was "a softie."
        Cousin Henry
        16
        She's not a bitch or a softie.
        Something wicked
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