softheartedly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for softheartedly
Adverb
  • Safdie sympathetically, vividly recounts the pressure to win, the violence in the ring, the addiction that saw Kerr OD twice.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 29 Sep. 2025
  • 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
Adverb
  • In a game that, mercifully, only lasted 12 minutes.
    Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The first is that tornadoes of that intensity are mercifully uncommon.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 6 Oct. 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
  • After consulting with multiple veterinarians, facility staff made the choice to humanely euthanize him early Wednesday.
    Hannah Elsmore, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
  • She was humanely euthanized over the weekend after falling for the second time in a month.
    Hannah Kirby, jsonline.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • Maggie also smiles tolerantly when Hank keeps his hand on her knee for a few beats too many, or leans in close during chats.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • Jeff Schenck with Hybrid Entertainment graciously purchased my wigs, and even offered unlimited transportation to any of my appointments.
    Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Meyers, who graciously agreed to an Evite for the blessed event, then suggested Swift send the invites in a picture frame, since people will probably frame it up anyway.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Softheartedly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/softheartedly. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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