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soft-minded
soft-minded
See also: softminded
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soft-minded (comparative more soft-minded, superlative most soft-minded)
- Lacking courage and conviction; easily swayed, persuaded, or intimidated.
- 1963, Joe D. Batten, Tough-minded management, ISBN 081445190X, page 37:
- The soft-minded manager often defers direct action in the hope that the situation will remedy itself.
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- Lacking intellectual rigor; Given to sentimentality.
- 2010, Ivan Hugh Walters, Education and Cultural Politics: Interrogating Idiotic Education, ISBN 1440176973, page 285:
- The liberated educator does not accept soft-minded religiosity because it embraces all kinds of superstitions.
- 2013, Emory Elliott, Martha Banta, & Houston A. Baker, The Columbia Literary History of the United States, ISBN 0585041520, page 284:
- Such unabashed sentiment and soft-minded engagement with the problems and powers of literary art are common enough in every age.
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