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Definition of softy
softies
1 : a weak or foolish person
2 : a softhearted or sentimental person
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Examples of softy in a Sentence
a softy who usually needs someone else's strong hands to open bottles and jars
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And many considered Marion, not Marine, to be the true future of the far-right, even though Marine was far from a softy.
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There, in their cramped apartment, mother and daughter coax out Michelle’s inner softy, who, unsurprisingly, is nowhere near as fun as her outer meanie.
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Jim Clark, inventor of the PocketWizard remote controls for flashguns, is a softy and a geek.
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Origin and Etymology of softy
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