tender-minded
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tender-minded
First recorded in 1595–1605
Example Sentences
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Clearly it is not a faith for the tender-minded.
From Time Magazine Archive
All this may seem elementary, but when Hooton steps over the threshold to humanity he finds that tender-minded idealists suddenly throw the biological basis of behavior right out the window.
From Time Magazine Archive
James was not thinking of moral distinctions: he was merely emphasizing the fact that tough-minded men require a different order of intellectual approach than do the tender-minded.
From Understanding the Scriptures by McConnell, Francis John
And even the young and the tender-minded learn to look on the calamities that touch them not, as things of mere artistic meaning.
From The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James
None but his own family knew how good he really was, and how tender-minded, so completely was all this excellence concealed by his cold and repulsive manner.
From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell
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