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See also: bleeding-heart


bleeding-heart

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bleeding-heart adjective
bleeding-heart
adjective
Learner's definition of BLEEDING-HEART
always used before a noun disapproving
: feeling too much sympathy for people in society who you think do not deserve sympathy or help心肠过软的;同情心泛滥的

bleeding heart

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noun

1
: a garden plant (Dicentra spectabilis) of the fumitory family with racemes of usually deep pink or white drooping heart-shaped flowers
broadly : any of several plants (genus Dicentra)
2
disparaging : a person who shows extravagant sympathy especially for an object of alleged persecution
To question police practices in America is to plunge into a debate distorted by caricatures. Police defenders generally see critics as cop-hating bleeding hearts, while police critics often see cops as trigger-happy killers. Ellis Cose

bleeding-heart

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adjective

bleed·​ing-heart ˈblē-diŋ-ˈhärt How to pronounce bleeding-heart (audio)
: feeling or showing excessive or extravagant sympathy especially for an object of alleged persecution
used as a term of disparagement for people with politically liberal opinions
… was often described as … a bleeding-heart liberal because he lent his name to so many left-wing groups. Patricia Bosworth

Word History

First Known Use

Noun

1864, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Adjective

1937, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of bleeding heart was in 1864

See also: bleeding heart


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