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Discover LudwigThe word "soft-" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used as a prefix before a word to indicate something that is gentle, delicate, or lacking in hardness or intensity. Example: The mother stroked her baby's soft cheek, soothing her to sleep.
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His reputation for intelligence is simply the soft bigotry of Washington's low expectations for politicians.
A few years ago, the question "can there be a soft dictatorship inside the EU?" would have been dismissed as an abstruse hypothetical for students of law and political theory.
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That is, they use it to signify that they are 'professional' when they start working – rather than drinking soft fizzy drinks".
I had grown up with her pictures and was in awe of her, and also taken aback by the mismatch between the soft, deep, clear beauty of her black-and-white photos that contain every shade and grain of grey and the unassuming, unadorned figure she cut.
Fry for 10 minutes or until soft and brown before adding the ginger, garlic and green chilli.
"Investments in hard and soft technologies are fuelling a virtuous cycle by supplying cities with yet more new talent and consolidating their place as hubs of innovation and connectivity.
The worst are the ones that have just been cobbled together and don't even make any sense (they're usually above a soft-focused picture of a love-heart or a kitten).
Then I remembered that Loach's Kes had its soundtrack dubbed to make it more comprehensible to soft southerners - in England, not in Dixie.
At the same time, I have started to use the term soft infrastructure to describe potential developments in technology that will allow more people to have power over the changes to the infrastructure around them.
Easier is to go soft and T-shirty on top, which heads off the stout-matron effect you get with a jacket and makes you look relaxed in an "Oh, I wear surprising trends all the time" kind of way.
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