How To Use Softie In A Sentence
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But while she is no softie and revels in a little rough-and-tumble now and again, her diminutive figure belies the true extent of her football potential.
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It is rather pathetic, though, that before mention of his genius and hard work, it was felt to be very important to note that he wasn't a "meanie," he was a "softie" -- "He hugged his children, bathed them when they were babies, and let them jump on the sofa, even though it was against the rules.
Pharyngula
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Rosemary and thyme both release their flavours in the heat of the oven - unlike the softie herbs such as basil, marjoram and oregano which can't take the heat and are best avoided here.
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But while Hopson may seem like a softie, his resolve is strong: he would rather break the laws of Costa Rica than his word to Andres.
The Snatchback
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As a southern softie, I have to wear something over my party dress.
Times, Sunday Times
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Don't be afraid of his "toothy" skin, he's really a softie.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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I had to get into some fights to prove I wasn't a "softie" I wrote about it a bit here
Proving myself Nigerian
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After finding a teddy in the nest where two chicks were hatched, officials of the Yorkshire Red Kite Project are asking if the spectacular birds of prey, which can have a wing span of up to five feet, are just softies at heart.
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When Katherine Parkinson who is lovely as Conceptiva, but hobbled, like everyone else, by this dead script tells Stephen Fry what a rotter he is, he replies: "Indeed, I am a lovelington and a softie boots.
TV review: The Bleak Old Shop of Stuff; King of Christmas Lights
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But in real life he's clearly an old softie.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was especially hard for me as I started in ER & was told I was a "softie" and that I needed to get over the "newness" of it all et to toughen up my skin some more.
Why Are Graduate Nurses on Today’s Menu?
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I'm an old softie and the thought of somebody being given 170 years is quite shocking to me.
The Sun
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There are the softies in love with international law and international institutions, who hold that niceness is nice because it’s nice and the United States should be nicer.
Matthew Yglesias » Experts Say
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But he hasn't turned into a southern softie.
The Sun
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However, the oversized softie has a weakness for sob stories and the lumber lout feeds him a whopper.
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Rosemary and thyme both release their flavours in the heat of the oven - unlike the softie herbs such as basil, marjoram and oregano which can't take the heat and are best avoided here.
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Maybe Elaine meant she heard that Miss Softie might notbe back.
Miss Softee Hopes To Return By June | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
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And though Alex maintains his stint in pediatrics has nothing to do with him being a softie for the kids, you can judge for yourself when he sings a few bars of a Justin Bieber tune to calm his patient while she's getting an MRI.
Mega Buzz: Grey's Bieber Connection, an Office Hunk, and the Bones Sniper
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If you want the answer to the big softie question you can skip to the end, because that's where it belongs.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's the toughie; he's the softie, leading with his heart, trying to tamp down his prim lust.
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Under the briskness and brusquerie, he was a softie and our respect for him was matched by our fondness.
'Under the briskness, he was a softie' | Julian Barnes
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You're a big softie really?
Times, Sunday Times
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However, his resistance to nuking the terrorists got him branded him as 'softie' during the presidential primaries.
Eliza Margarita Bates and Cara Zwerling: Obama, McCain on National Security and Nuclear Proliferation
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Or are you really a big romantic softie?
The Sun
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They therefore submitted nasty strategies, trying to exploit these anticipated softies!
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But it turns out she's just a big softie with a weird phobia of cotton wool.
The Sun
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'You're a bunch of softies!' the sergeant shouted to the new recruits.
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Maybe the Leicester chairman has turned into an old softie.
The Sun
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To think that some people say they are tough guys who will pull out all the stops to win when they are really just a bunch of softies who don't want to embarrass their rivals.
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I contacted Great Dane rescue groups, posted a pitiful plea on a Yahoo mailing list for injured dogs, and asked around at the barn where I volunteered, but all the softies out there were full-up on their quota of animals.
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For all their huff and puff, and pitbull looks, they turn out to be softies.
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Behind the scenes he's a big softie.
The Sun
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That sheriff didn't sound like a softie to me and if he thinks there's a compelling reason to be concerned about her mental/physical health, I'd prefer go with his reading of the situation rather than with the coyote cries of prosecutors slash pundits on cable news or the buttinsky opportunism of Al Sharpton, hoping to relive his Imus spotlight moment.
Paris Then, Paris Now: James Wolcott
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This is most probably the image that other university hockey teams have of the warriors - that they are a bunch of academic softies.
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Softies Leather corals lack the hard calcium carbonate skeleton of stony corals.
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Can a man trained to attack and win at all costs turn out to be a big old softie?
Times, Sunday Times
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How could you take an old softie like Henry and twist him around-your finger that way?
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And the customer * really* wanted that hayrack, but being a softie, she paid for it and said she would come back and get it once mother and baby (babies?) were gone.
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What a sentimental old softie.
The Sun
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Don't, however, run away with the idea that this is bushwalking for softies.
Times, Sunday Times
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Justice secretary described as a 'softie' by tabloids over plans to simplify guidelines on sentences for murderers
Three prisons to close in coalition justice reforms
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A study has shown that Carlow people are no softies when illness strikes and display much more determination when it comes to fighting their winter woes than the average Irish person.
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Despite your hard exterior, are you just a big softie?
The Sun
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I've become an old softie.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unsurprisingly, the whole idea of ‘emotional software’ made by softies really appeals to me.
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I think I saw myself as a 'softie' -- I wasn't a street-tough kid ...
Women Who Dared - Sally Mack on IMPACT ON SELF
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Hard on the pitch but a big softie off it.
The Sun
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I chuckle and tell him that I think he is a bit of a softie at heart.
Times, Sunday Times
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I bet you're a right old softie where she's concerned.
The Sun
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A jackboot serial killer on the loose, stomping down the humanist softies of soul?
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In 1988, Brown, a former Bob Dole staffer, had grievously wounded Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis with the infamous Willie Horton commercial, which (unfairly) portrayed Dukakis as the kind of softie liberal who would set murderers free so they could kill again.
The Secret War
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He might be rough and tough on the field but he's a big softie off it.
The Sun
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The perpetrators involved are not softies, they are very tough kids.
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Giles was ridiculed all over again as a cry-baby and a big softie.
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The octopus is the ultimate softie.
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Many seemed to have been put off by the steady fall of rain that lasted until half time but umbrellas, and even coats, were apparently only for softies.
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Unfortunately, there are far too many drivers on our roads today who seem to feel that compliance with the regulations is for softies only.
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He's a big fat softie.
Times, Sunday Times
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He became "a creature of God" and was surrounded with something of the care and reverence with which the principal "softie" in the village was regarded.
The Captives
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I think he enjoyed putting on this gruff manner to frighten people, but underneath he was a bit of a softie.
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I may be a softie and a sappy old romantic, but after hearing that, only a heartless stick-in-the-mud would think hubby Rick is a big fat jerk without a shred of sensitivity!
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But while it has plenty of gentle slopes, do not let this fool you into imagining that it is purely for softies.
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Groups of toughs would observe and point out the best actions, or ridicule the softies who couldn't cope.
