: 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)
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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
: 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