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soft-heartedly en · ADV

Etymology

From soft-hearted + -ly.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of softheartedly.
   alt of softheartedly
   • There had been a time, shortly after the unsolved murder of her husband, when she had felt soft-heartedly indulgent to this now shell of a man, Martin. 2015, James Hufferd, The Bells of Autumn: A Novel, →ISBN, page 75:
   • That was what Adam Blacklock had said when she had complained first about the presence of a perpetual bodyguard, and then had tried, soft-heartedly, to have him asked into the kitchen when the weather got cold. 1997, Dorothy Dunnett, Checkmate, →ISBN, page 221:

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