softy
noun
a person easily stirred to sentiment or tender emotion.
softies
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pluralof softy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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So how will the "usual suspects", the "softies", the "newbies" and the "toadies" shake down?
From BBC ● Mar. 15, 2025
That year, the crown price of softies, Drake, scored this first Top 10 single with “Best I Ever Had.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2023
Brandi’s kinda pushing us that way, we’re kinda softies now that we’re old, but Brandi wants to go there.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2023
Like Buster, he too has posted on Facebook to brand the tormentors as softies.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 30, 2015
We certainly respect him compared with many men of his time—the shifty politicians, the vicious or weak leaders of thought, who went through life as softies, without rigid standards of conduct.
From The Crow's Nest by Clarence Day
