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
For he was by no means a tender-minded nor gentle man, but very ferocious.
From The Iliad of Homer (1873) by Buckley, Theodore Alois
The tender-minded notion of an absolute reality is, according to the radically tough-minded, framed on just this pattern.
From Pragmatism by James, William
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)
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