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Bleeding heart

Meaning: very compassionate person who feels compassion or pity towards all people, even people who most people wouldn't feel sorry for
How to use in a sentence: When the murderer was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment a number of people were very upset because they thought that he was really a nice man who had just made one mistake.  Most of the country thought that these people were a bunch of bleeding hearts.

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