as in sucker
one who is easily deceived or cheated
the kindly old woman was a soft touch for any con man with a hard-luck story
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Recent Examples of soft touch
But if Iraqi hedging requires a soft touch from the United States, Trump delivered the polar opposite.
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Michael Wahid Hanna, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2019
Duren is a mobile big with a soft touch who also is a solid vertical spacer and, like his colleagues in this exercise, young enough to warrant serious attention.
—The Athletic Staff, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
Special yarns and spinning technologies give the fabric family its unique shiny look and soft touch.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 29 Oct. 2024
Tennessee: Aidoo is beginning to play with more passion and aggressiveness, going hard to the rim to complement his soft touch.
—Al Lesar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
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Michael Wahid Hanna, Foreign Affairs, 14 Feb. 2019
Duren is a mobile big with a soft touch who also is a solid vertical spacer and, like his colleagues in this exercise, young enough to warrant serious attention.
—The Athletic Staff, The Athletic, 8 Aug. 2024
Special yarns and spinning technologies give the fabric family its unique shiny look and soft touch.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 29 Oct. 2024
Tennessee: Aidoo is beginning to play with more passion and aggressiveness, going hard to the rim to complement his soft touch.
—Al Lesar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2024
See all Example Sentences for soft touch
Recent Examples of Synonyms for soft touch
Noun
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Where needing help is for losers and providing it is for suckers.—
Heidi Stevens,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Jan. 2025
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The president has long maintained that this order disadvantages the United States by saddling it with the burden of policing the globe and enabling its allies to play it for a sucker.—
Ivo H. Daalder,
Foreign Affairs,
30 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Access to even basic diagnostic tools could avoid over a million deaths annually.—
William Mullane,
USA TODAY,
1 Feb. 2025
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Eschewing rulers and other traditional drafting tools, Fassler sketches freehand and makes floor plans subjectively scaled to the size and shape of her own body.—
Mara Hoberman,
Artforum,
1 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Neither the driver nor the victims have been publicly identified by authorities.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
27 Jan. 2025
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One of my personal concerns is the tendency, particularly in Germany, to focus too much in films on the perpetrators, not the victims, like in Downfall or the recent Wannsee Conference adaptation.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Jan. 2025
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“Soft touch.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/soft%20touch. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
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