soft-heartedly

See also: softheartedly

English

Etymology

soft-hearted +‎ -ly

Adverb

soft-heartedly (comparative more soft-heartedly, superlative most soft-heartedly)

1. Alternative form of softheartedly
   • 2015, James Hufferd, The Bells of Autumn: A Novel, →ISBN, page 75:

     There had been a time, shortly after the unsolved murder of her husband, when she had felt soft-heartedly indulgent to this now shell of a man, Martin.

   • 1997, Dorothy Dunnett, Checkmate, →ISBN, page 221:

     That was what Adam Blacklock had said when she had complained first about the presence of a perpetual bodyguard, and then had tried, soft-heartedly, to have him asked into the kitchen when the weather got cold.