How to Use softy in a Sentence

softy

noun

• In terms of sort of being a softy, is there one song that surprised you the most on the album?
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
• Who's more of the disciplinarian and who's more of the softy?
  — Lacey Vorrasi-Banis, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• From a stop, the engine isn't exactly a softy, but the real neck bending starts at 3000 rpm.
  — Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 15 Jan. 2020
• Then, Embiid went on to say Whiteside only cares about his stats and not the success of his team - and called him a #softy.
  — Alysha Tsuji, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2017
• Being an old softy, Gracie agrees, but Angus can see through this scheme.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
• The second goal Mrázek allowed, this one by Megna, was a real softy — though Jones did him no favors.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2023
• And many considered Marion, not Marine, to be the true future of the far-right, even though Marine was far from a softy.
  — chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2017
• Bryce presents himself as a rough-around-the-edges softy, marrying no-nonsense fortitude with a big heart.
  — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 8 Aug. 2017
• The goal was a softy, ex-Sharks tender Martin Jones (who was briefly Bruins property in 2015) failing to cover the short-side post.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
• But after about a week in close quarters with the babies, the deep-down systems start to awaken, and the former cannibal begins to act like a softy around the pups.
  — Dina Litovsky, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
• Jim Clark, inventor of the PocketWizard remote controls for flashguns, is a softy and a geek.
  — Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2009
• Four kids create a gaming empire with the help of an anger-prone (but ultimately a big softy) famous rapper.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 8 Jan. 2018
• To capitalize on the find, a team chopped the Drakozoon fossil into 200 pieces, photographed those slices, and used a computer to construct a rotatable image of the old softy.
  — Joseph Calamia, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2010
• 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.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2016
• Swayman shrugged off the softy and several key stops early in the third period when the B’s took back-to-back penalties.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
• Jamie would probably cry over this; that highlander is a softy.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
• Who knew the Roastmaster General was such a softy?
  — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025