sweethearted

English

Adjective

sweethearted (comparative more sweethearted, superlative most sweethearted)

  1. Alternative form of sweet-hearted.
    • 2008 February 6, Simon de Bruxelles, quoting Joel Williams, “Teenager who planned to marry is Welsh town’s 14th young suicide”, in The Times[1], London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 December 2025:
      Just a note to let you all know that at 1am Monday morning, life took away from us one of the kindest, sweethearted loving people we could ever have been blessed to know.
    • 2014 September 18, Hermione Hoby, “Zach Braff interview: 'I didn't make this film for money'”, in The Daily Telegraph[2], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 September 2014:
      "We need to end on something uplifting!" he says. He thinks for a moment. Then tells me: "You have approximately 60 summers left. So you need to make the most of those. You shouldn't be talking to me in a dark hotel lobby, you should be out walking a puppy." Which – as sweethearted as it is insufferable – is as Zach Braff–ish a valediction as I can imagine.
    • 2020 May 16, Lucy Knisley, “Carnival Performer, Newly Separated; Attachment Issues”, in The New York Times Book Review[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2020:
      “Harold the Wild Boy,” billed as a jungle savage, is in truth a sweethearted scholar.