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The phrase "almost sympathetic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a feeling or attitude that is close to being sympathetic but not fully so.
Example: "She felt almost sympathetic towards his plight, but her own troubles overshadowed her empathy."
Alternatives: "nearly compassionate" or "borderline understanding".
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My interrogator's voice was soft, almost sympathetic.
She now sounds almost sympathetic to her father.
A figure of ridicule, a theatrical creation, he is almost sympathetic.
Today, in the post-everything era, kitsch is treated with fond, almost sympathetic irony.
He seemed contrite, credible, and — thanks to a thrashing by the defense — almost sympathetic, writes Fortune.
The mild word he chose about her comment was an almost sympathetic wrongheaded.
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They almost sounded sympathetic.
Coverage of Liu's situation in the state news media was almost uniformly sympathetic.
On Broadway the people attending are almost exclusively sympathetic to the productions: producers and those involved with the show, theater bigwigs and standard first-nighters.
"There are some suggestions that doctors are almost too sympathetic – they are taught to empathise and sympathise and treat the condition in front of them.
As its champions would say, they have held companies to account, by embarrassing the ones that especially offend against the principles of CSR, and by mobilising public sentiment and an almost universally sympathetic press against them.
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