"soft-minded" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "soft + minded",
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          "ref": "1963, Joe D. Batten, Tough-minded management, page 37",
          "text": "The soft-minded manager often defers direct action in the hope that the situation will remedy itself.",
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        "Lacking courage and conviction; easily swayed, persuaded, or intimidated."
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          "text": "The liberated educator does not accept soft-minded religiosity because it embraces all kinds of superstitions.",
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          "ref": "2013, Emory Elliott, Martha Banta, Houston A. Baker, The Columbia Literary History of the United States, page 284",
          "text": "Such unabashed sentiment and soft-minded engagement with the problems and powers of literary art are common enough in every age.",
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        "Lacking intellectual rigor; Given to sentimentality."
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