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soft-cancel

soft-cancel verb: to criticize or sideline (a person) for perceived unacceptable behavior, without fully ostracizing or banning them.

Verb

soft-cancel (third-person singular simple present soft-cancels, present participle soft-canceling or soft-cancelling, simple past and past participle soft-canceled or soft-cancelled)

  1. (transitive) To criticize or sideline (a person) for perceived unacceptable behavior, without fully ostracizing or banning them.

Forms of soft-cancel

third-person singular presentsoft-cancels
present participlesoft-canceling
present participlesoft-cancelling
past participlesoft-canceled
pastsoft-canceled
past participlesoft-cancelled
pastsoft-cancelled

Questions about soft-cancel

What does soft-cancel mean?
Soft-cancel means to criticize or sideline (a person) for perceived unacceptable behavior, without fully ostracizing or banning them.
What part of speech is soft-cancel?
Soft-cancel is a verb.
What is the past tense of soft-cancel?
The past tense of soft-cancel is soft-canceled.

Words near soft-cancel in the dictionary

  1. soft-blocked
  2. soft-blocking
  3. soft-blocks
  4. soft-boiled
  5. soft-brick
  6. soft-cancel
  7. soft-close
  8. Soft-coated Wheaten Terrier
  9. Soft-coated Wheaten Terriers
  10. soft-core
  11. soft-delete

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