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sweet-hearted en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Of sweet disposition.
   • When he finally got to read the first script, Neff says, he fell for the show because ‘it has really good values at its core. It’s a very sweet-hearted, kind show, and it places family first and doing the right thing first.[…]’ 2010 October 26, Maria Elena Fernandez, “Lucas Neff breaks out on ‘Raising Hope’ and laughs a little along the way”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Dec 2025:
   • I'll think of some who won't be entering the new year with us—big, sweet-hearted dynamo Richard Holbrooke, and Ted Sorensen, counselor to presidents, whose pen was a terrible swift sword. 2011 January 3, Peggy Noonan, “Days of Auld Lang What?”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2015:
   • When sweet-hearted Sid the Sloth (John Leguizamo) decides he wants his own family and stumbles onto dino eggs, he adopts the little critters, unleashing all manner of prehistoric chaos. 2009 July 9, Hugh Hart, “Movies: ’’Bruno’’ Ups Ante on Outrage”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Jul 2014:
   • My friends that are engaged with public questions, do not restrict your zeal, and do not be warped nor bent by any sinister influence; but let the mind and will of Christ be in you—let the Spirit of God dwell with you. You will be clearer-headed, more content, sweeter-hearted, and more influential for good. 1860 December 20, Henry Ward Beecher, “Sermons”, in The Independent, volume XII, number 629, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 5:

Forms

Deriveds

sweet-heartedness · sweet-heartedly

Relateds

sweetheart