SOFT TOUCHES Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

soft touches

noun

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plural of soft touch

as in suckers

one who is easily deceived or cheated the kindly old woman was a soft touch for any con man with a hard-luck story

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Recent Examples of soft touches And was the easiest of soft touches, but one who never tooted his own horn. —

Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Feb. 2026 Though both adaptations of Louisa May Alcott’s novel offer an exceptionally warm atmosphere, with their amber hues and teary-eyed pretty boys, the soft touches of this ’90s classic are paired perfectly with a weighted blanket and some London Fog. —

Emma Specter, Vogue, 30 Aug. 2025

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Noun

This is done by removing suckers early for several weeks after transplanting.

— Barbara Gillette, The Spruce, 15 Mar. 2026
Despite all of my research—my monastic study of the lines, my careful hunt for small edges, my righteous avoidance of the high-risk suckers’ bets that the apps were constantly pushing on me—I had been burned by a bad call from a random referee.

— McKay Coppins, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2026