How to Use softy in a Sentence

softy

noun

• Jamie would probably cry over this; that highlander is a softy.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2025
• Who's more of the disciplinarian and who's more of the softy?
  — Lacey Vorrasi-Banis, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• Being an old softy, Gracie agrees, but Angus can see through this scheme.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2022
• 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
• Who knew the Roastmaster General was such a softy?
  — Chris Jones, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
• 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
• Meanwhile, with his initial softy behind, Swayman made several big saves.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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’s the hotshot surgeon (Rory Kinnear) who does a lot of very fast amputations, the kooky dentist who is attempting to invent anesthesia and the softy psychiatrist with a seriously inconvenient crush.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020