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
I was rough-minded, to use the phrase of William James, primary and intuitive and illogical; she was tender-minded, logical, refined and secondary.
From The New Machiavelli by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
It suffices for our immediate purpose that tender-minded and tough-minded people, characterized as I have written them down, do both exist.
From Pragmatism by James, William
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
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