bleeding heart
any of various plants belonging to the genus Dicentra, of the fumitory family, especially D. spectabilis, a common garden plant having long, one-sided clusters of rose or red heart-shaped flowers.
a person who makes an ostentatious or excessive display of pity or concern for others.
Origin of bleeding heart
1Other words from bleeding heart
- bleeding-heart, adjective
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How to use bleeding heart in a sentence
In the experiment, Yuk treated rats with bleeding heart and liver injuries with products typically used by surgeons.
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through August 28) | Singularity Hub Staff | August 28, 2021 | Singularity HubShe had what is often called a bleeding heart; it had been part of her since childhood.
Some of the bleeding-heart left-wing, extreme left-wing, are actually different from liberals.
Robert Duvall on His Storied Career, His New Movie, and Why He’s Ditching the GOP | Marlow Stern | March 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAndrew Sullivan directs us to the interesting discussion at bleeding heart Libertarians, "why aren't more libertarians women."
In Sodom, the mob comes to get the strangers and the bleeding-heart liberal who tried to put a roof over their head.
Just plain, old-fashioned, bleeding-heart liberal Democrats.
Michigan’s Primary Party Crashers: Democrats Crossing Over to Thwart Romney | Ben Jacobs | February 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe made no reference or allusion to his loss, but all could see he carried a bleeding heart.
Reminiscences of Charles Bradlaugh | George W. FooteHow kindly, my beloved Mrs. Norton, do you soothe the anguish of a bleeding heart!
Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) | Samuel RichardsonHe pressed his forehead against the saddle, and from the depth of a bleeding heart came up an agonised exclamation.
Handy Andy, Volume 2 (of 2) | Samuel LoverBlotted out, too, were the years of his anger and the scars of a bleeding heart, and years of indignant suffering.
Dodo's Daughter | E. F. BensonDicentra spectabilis (bleeding heart), red and white; one to two feet; May.
A Woman's Hardy Garden | Helena Rutherfurd Ely
British Dictionary definitions for bleeding heart
any of several plants of the genus Dicentra, esp the widely cultivated Japanese species D. spectabilis, which has finely divided leaves and heart-shaped nodding pink flowers: family Fumariaceae
informal
a person who is excessively softhearted
(as modifier): a bleeding-heart liberal
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