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
By admitting the part played by the non-human background in determining fate, the naturalistic school of writers have enlarged the vision of the novelist beyond the range of the tender-minded sentimentalist.
From The Principles of Aesthetics by Parker, Dewitt H.
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
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