softheartedly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for softheartedly
Adverb
  • Curtis a prominent liberal-leaning figure speaking sympathetically about a conservative activist, is an unusual cross-ideological expression of mourning.
    Megan Cartwright, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Maura’s performance makes Maria Angeles so magnetic and eccentric — earthily practical on some matters, dizzily irrational on others, and sympathetically true to herself on all fronts — that all the film’s other players want for detail and texture by comparison.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • There are only five games left before this disappointing season mercifully comes to an end.
    Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Antioch suffered through a 22-game losing streak that mercifully ended in 2022.
    Tyler Palmateer, Nashville Tennessean, 20 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • These days, Christmas movies, broadly and charitably defined, seem to be synonymous with the brassy, hokey, sickly sweet sort of fare that has a permanent home on the Hallmark Channel and is in perpetual rotation on Netflix.
    Peter Tonguette, The Washington Examiner, 19 Sep. 2025
  • In effect, this is just a trope of mondo films — or, less charitably, mockumentaries.
    Sam Bodrojan, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Harris compassionately explored these issues that many women faced later in life — and which rarely went represented on television.
    Time, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Each was compassionately euthanized Thursday.
    Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • She was humanely euthanized over the weekend after falling for the second time in a month.
    Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • To take part in the challenge, participants were required to pass an online training, as per the event's website, and had to kill the pythons humanely.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Earlier this month, however, the Princess of Wales was graciously gifted a sparkly red cowgirl hat by England's Red Roses rugby team after their victory against Australia in the Women's Rugby World Cup.
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 27 Sep. 2025
  • And for those more interested in Mulaney’s musical stylings, the MLB graciously posted the below clip of his seventh inning stretch serenade.
    Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 24 Sep. 2025
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“Softheartedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/softheartedly. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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