soft-heartedly

comparative more soft-heartedly · superlative most soft-heartedly

1. alternativeAlternative form 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

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   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