NOUN
- garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers
- someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be exploited or underprivileged
How To Use bleeding heart In A Sentence
- This HUGE bed of old-fashioned bleeding hearts (dicentra spectabalis) must have popped up overnight – the bed isabout7 feet long by3 feet wide. A whopping bed of bleeding hearts almost made me drive off the side of the road « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
- These bleeding heart liberals are just as culpable as those who took part. The Sun
- While the waters of Venice and the ruins of Rome were sunning themselves for the pleasure of the Dorrit family, and were daily being sketched out of all earthly proportion, lineament, and likeness, by travelling pencils innumerable, the firm of Doyce and Clennam hammered away in Bleeding Heart Yard, and the vigorous clink of iron upon iron was heard there through the working hours. Little Dorrit
- No, just pointing out that liberals are the bed-wetting, dependency-seeking, bleeding heart totalitarians that frequently struted across the European stage while Yanks built a nation on based on the creed of self-reliance, liberty and freedom. Matthew Yglesias » India’s Response to Terrorism
- The first course in the banquet is a child's bleeding heart, and the other courses are equally gruesome; and they drink a toast to "the pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war, the grand self-sacrifice that made us what we are. The War and the Church
- The fern leaf bleeding hearts, Dicentra eximia have been everblooming since early spring. November Dreams Bloom Day « Fairegarden
- Also Curcuma inodora, chenille plant, Thai Beauty caladium, bleeding heart vine, jade vine. Astrology for Enlightenment
- The critical thing is that fostering civilized behavior should be a priority up front in the design of our foreign policy, not an afterthought, a sop to bleeding hearts, or a pretext for something else.
- And, considering that the hour – glass they turned from year to year was filled with the earthiest and coarsest sand, the Bleeding Heart Yarders had reason enough for objecting to be despoiled of the one little golden grain of poetry that sparkled in it. Little Dorrit
- Down in Bleeding Heart Yard there was scarcely an inhabitant of note to whom Mr Pancks had not imparted his demonstration, and, as figures are catching, a kind of cyphering measles broke out in that locality, under the influence of which the whole Yard was light – headed. Little Dorrit
