How to Use softy in a Sentence

softy

noun
  • In terms of sort of being a softy, is there one song that surprised you the most on the album?
    Steve Baltin, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2021
  • Who's more of the disciplinarian and who's more of the softy?
    Lacey Vorrasi-Banis, EW.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • From a stop, the engine isn't exactly a softy, but the real neck bending starts at 3000 rpm.
    Tony Quiroga, Car and Driver, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Then, Embiid went on to say Whiteside only cares about his stats and not the success of his team - and called him a #softy.
    Alysha Tsuji, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2017
  • And many considered Marion, not Marine, to be the true future of the far-right, even though Marine was far from a softy.
    chicagotribune.com, 9 May 2017
  • Bryce presents himself as a rough-around-the-edges softy, marrying no-nonsense fortitude with a big heart.
    Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 8 Aug. 2017
  • The goal was a softy, ex-Sharks tender Martin Jones (who was briefly Bruins property in 2015) failing to cover the short-side post.
    BostonGlobe.com, 30 Sep. 2021
  • But after about a week in close quarters with the babies, the deep-down systems start to awaken, and the former cannibal begins to act like a softy around the pups.
    Dina Litovsky, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2021
  • Jim Clark, inventor of the PocketWizard remote controls for flashguns, is a softy and a geek.
    Charlie Sorrel, WIRED, 16 Mar. 2009
  • Four kids create a gaming empire with the help of an anger-prone (but ultimately a big softy) famous rapper.
    Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 8 Jan. 2018
  • There, in their cramped apartment, mother and daughter coax out Michelle’s inner softy, who, unsurprisingly, is nowhere near as fun as her outer meanie.
    Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2016
  • That’s the point these vets are making — holistic support of the military includes some social safety nets that hard-right America sees as squishy, softy socialism.
    Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Behind the rugged and tough trim names and its legitimate off-road chops, Ford's reimagined Bronco is an approachable and refined softy—particularly on the road, where all but the most committed trail hands will be driving them most of the time.
    Dave Vanderwerp, Car and Driver, 28 June 2021
  • There’s the hotshot surgeon (Rory Kinnear) who does a lot of very fast amputations, the kooky dentist who is attempting to invent anesthesia and the softy psychiatrist with a seriously inconvenient crush.
    Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020

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