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- noun Plural form of
bleeding-heart .
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Examples
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I have heard the smallest, silliest things called “evil” by the bed-wetting, bleeding-hearts, and the term has simply become meaningless.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Declaration of Independence and the Case for Non-Ethnic Secession: 2009
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Every time some loony kills a bunch of people the liberal bleeding-hearts come out of the closet and start ranting about gun control.
Philip Slater: Don't Americans Have a Right to Kill People? 2008
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It may be too late to save Charles Cullen from the bleeding-hearts and tort-mongers, but let us quietly honor him by creating a special force of super-nurses - The Charles Cullen Night-Riders say or Cullen's Angels of Mercy - to build on this visionary's innovations.
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Some true bleeding-hearts, to be sure, will interrupt me here to object that there can never be any such thing as a procedurally fair application of capital punishment.
Daimnation!: Two countries, two standards - and deservedly so 2008
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We allowed myopic bleeding-hearts and malpractice buzzards to brand this hero a killer and put him away for eleven consecutive life terms!
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Must we impose upon ouselves the norms of "sensitive" bien-pensant bleeding-hearts who are forever claiming the moral high-ground and take offense at anything?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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And how, incidentally, do you feel about people who disagree with you, the bleeding-hearts who would vote for tax increases?
Frank Dwyer: Why, Oh, Why, Do You Hate Paris?: A Convenient Scapegoat 2008
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Just imagine if the bleeding-hearts got their way and we had a more "equitable" worldwide distribution of wealth.
Tony Hendra: The Forbes 4,000,000,000! Let's Hear it for Trickle-Up! 2008
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Also in this issue, there aren't as many dead Iraqis as bleeding-hearts think, the Seventies were a good era for movies, and Christopher Hitchens finds Ezra Pound talented but controversial.
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Rather than bend over for the bleeding-hearts as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have, "it's time for pushback" declares Manning who proposes launching a global union of the super-rich: The Fraternal Order of Billionaires Local 1, to protect "the inherent human right to make more money than you'll ever need or spend."
Tony Hendra: The Forbes 4,000,000,000! Let's Hear it for Trickle-Up! 2008
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