softy
Americannoun
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a person easily stirred to sentiment or tender emotion.
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a person who lacks stamina or endurance.
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a person who lacks strength of character; a silly or foolish person.
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Until recently, D’Amaro had mastered another Wambsgansian trait: the ability to play softy while the CEO fielded the outrage from visitors and investors that ensued thanks to these incidents.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2026
That Crutch, for all his bluster, is a softy, is a point the series explicitly makes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025
Added Castellanos: “A lot of remorse, concern, worry. I don’t know, I’ve turned into a softy since I had kids. I don’t like stuff like that.”
From Washington Times ● May 14, 2023
Grubauer appeared to have rectified things against the Sharks on Thursday, then allowed the quick softy to Edmonton.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
Maybe Mrs. Alvarez is really a big softy just like her daughter.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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
Frustrated: Who raised all of these tender softies?
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2021
"Graham, a compact parcel of Scouse gelignite, doesn't tend to play softies, so his simmering aggression felt all too credible."
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2019
I wouldn't have come into your garden, only, you see, I'd just skeered by accident two of your helps, reg'lar softies, and I wanted to explain.
From Tales of Trail and Town by Harte, Bret
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