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
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)
It was something that in different ways they did to him, unconsciously, almost casually—perhaps finding him tender-minded and afraid, they killed the things in him that menaced their absolute sway.
From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)
This is what the men of principles, and in general all the men whom I called tender-minded in my first lecture, think themselves obliged to postulate.
From Pragmatism by James, William
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