tender-minded
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of tender-minded
First recorded in 1595–1605
Example Sentences
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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
Clearly it is not a faith for the tender-minded.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
He could say "No!" neither to man nor woman; borrower and temptress alike found him tender-minded and pliable.
From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
This able and tender-minded man usually sat in Meeting with his head bent, his felt hat before his eyes, wrapped in thought, and lifted above all consideration of the things of this earth.
From Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)
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