How to Use solicitude in a Sentence

solicitude

noun

• He expressed solicitude for my health.
• Along with the martinis (and the solicitude of his wife), his fame, which came young, preserved him like an onion.
  — New York Times, 5 Feb. 2021
• And yet these judges evince far more solicitude for former convicts’ right to bear arms than their right to vote.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 9 May 2017
• And then, my solicitude surprised no one, not me, not him, not our friends and family.
  — Carolita Johnson, Longreads, 21 June 2018
• His solicitude aside, Vargas hunted those men to the exclusion of all else.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• Not to lord victory over others, but to show solicitude and modesty in triumph.
  — Greg Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
• Frederick’s solicitude for Agatha puts him on a collision course with his dad.
  — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2019
• Touched by their solicitude (turns out Gary only suffered a minor concussion), Rachel invites the duo to her eatery, and a friendship commences.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 7 Dec. 2022
• His solicitude has prompted me to write often about the oppressed, the overlooked and especially those who needed help.
  — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 21 June 2019
• Progressive politicians are doing the opposite, blighting the lives of the law-abiding with their warped solicitude for the criminal few.
  — William P. Barr, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
• Yet there are way too many endearing acts and instances of real solicitude to dismiss him as an irredeemable jerk.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Nor has Texas shown much solicitude for the businesses that provide capital to help its economy grow.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2021
• Acosta’s solicitude for those 21 laggards should be weighed against the fact that today’s federal minimum wage is close to a historical nadir for the U.S.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 9 July 2019
• The court’s conservative majority is not known for its solicitude toward death-row prisoners, to say the least.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
• In this story of middle-age reckoning and teenage awakening, there are plenty of moments of selfishness dressed up as solicitude.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 June 2022
• Energetic and capable, but often drunk, the senior Ms. Shields is portrayed in her daughter’s memoir with an unlikely blend of solicitude and pain.
  — Ruth La Ferla, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
• All of this tremendous deference to the religious sensitivities of the objectors is balanced against, well, no solicitude at all for the interests on the opposing side.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 19 Mar. 2017
• In some ways, his circumstances seem even less worthy of judicial solicitude than his predecessors’ were.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2019
• But this international wave of solicitude seems different in important ways, not least because of its context.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Mar. 2022
• Even the special solicitude accorded former presidents does not alter the outcome.
  — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• There’s a competitive passive aggression in their solicitude, and plenty of ego within their altruism.
  — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2017
• Despite Trump’s personal solicitude of Vladimir Putin, his administration’s policies on Russia have been hawkish.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2018
• If America’s policy toward China for the first four decades since normalization in 1979 can be described as benevolent solicitude, this new policy is one of flinty reciprocity.
  — John Pomfret, The Denver Post, 7 Feb. 2017
• That’s especially so in light of the solicitude the regents recently showed to their cadre of half-million-dollar campus chancellors, supposedly doing so poorly in relation to their public university peers.
  — Michael Hiltzikbusiness Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 21 Mar. 2022
• Likewise, the show’s depiction of a strain of officious bureaucracy that uses an ostentatious form of well-meaning solicitude to mask various forms of self-serving malice occasionally strikes home.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 3 Apr. 2020
• Hence the newfound hostility of conservative jurists to Chevron may be seen not as a break from the 1980s, but a continuation of solicitude by conservative jurists for Republican political authority.
  — WSJ, 13 Dec. 2021
• Moreover, the president’s determination that an exercise of his own power was unconstitutional warrants the court’s solicitude.
  — Josh Blackman, National Review, 10 Jan. 2018
• Currie handles that emotionally complex and unspeakably sad situation with such tender solicitude.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 2 Mar. 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024