as in compassionate
having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others
a good-hearted doctor who regularly sees poor patients for free
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Recent Examples of good-hearted
Can blue cities and states, nonprofits and good-hearted corporations keep up the fight without any federal help?
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Bill Weir, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
Pattinson manages a fine and witty character delineation between good-hearted, passive #17 and steely, brutal #18.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
It feels directly dragged out of the 1980s and early 1990s, a time when Hollywood was devoted to turning out swarms of action flicks in which some flawed and downtrodden but good-hearted hero thwarts a devious conspiracy or an impending alien invasion or whatever.
—Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Join 4 others in the comments View Comments At the other end of the mid-century spectrum is Donna, the town doctor’s good-hearted daughter, cut from the finest girl-next-door cloth.
—Ananda Pellerin, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
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Bill Weir, CNN, 23 Mar. 2025
Pattinson manages a fine and witty character delineation between good-hearted, passive #17 and steely, brutal #18.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
It feels directly dragged out of the 1980s and early 1990s, a time when Hollywood was devoted to turning out swarms of action flicks in which some flawed and downtrodden but good-hearted hero thwarts a devious conspiracy or an impending alien invasion or whatever.
—Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Join 4 others in the comments View Comments At the other end of the mid-century spectrum is Donna, the town doctor’s good-hearted daughter, cut from the finest girl-next-door cloth.
—Ananda Pellerin, CNN, 16 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for good-hearted
Adjective
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Seek out people who are compassionate and who have your back.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
5 June 2025
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That’s why taking a holistic, compassionate approach to dealing with these issues is crucial.—
Wendy Wisner,
Parents,
4 June 2025
Adjective
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Elsewhere, organised crime still has its tendrils in many parts of the sport across the globe, and the misty-eyed reverence for benevolent local tycoons is a notion that went extinct before the Tasmanian tiger.—
Jacob Whitehead,
New York Times,
2 June 2025
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Another new motif was the eye, meant to represent here an omniscient but benevolent entity that accompanies and perpetuates knowledge in an unaltered state.—
Lily Templeton,
Footwear News,
27 May 2025
Adjective
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Paris favors the kinder appellation: The Holy Trinity.—
Jeff Weiss,
HollywoodReporter,
12 June 2025
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Instead, little Celeste spends her days with a kind guardian robot.—
Marta Balaga,
Variety,
12 June 2025
Adjective
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The Supreme Court appeared sympathetic to the parents during oral arguments in March and seemed inclined to require that public schools give parents the ability to opt their children out of instruction featuring the books.—
Melissa Quinn
June 9,
CBS News,
9 June 2025
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Two years ago, a tragedy caught the world’s attention … but not in a particularly sympathetic way.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
7 June 2025
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The Feels is the brainchild of Allie Hoffman, who came up with the idea for a more thoughtful IRL dating event while pursuing her master’s degree from the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Teachers College, Columbia University.—
Deborah Vankin,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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These practices can generate thoughtful and detailed commentary.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
8 June 2025
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