softie

It made him sound like a softie, he said, a mischaracterization that he wanted to correct.

Matt DeAngelis, who plays Woof in the show, admitted to being a big softie.

In fact, it teasingly suggests that Vanderbilt's a real softie.

After that we dropped the 'Softie,' and re-named him 'Amen-who-shied-that-boot?'

"You know well enough that Merriwell is no softie," returned Harry, rather warmly.

He is a kind of softie—all alive on one side of his brain, and a noodle on the other.