Example Sentences

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Now, not untenderly, she calls him a Fudd.

From Washington Post • Mar. 4, 2019

When the bride, lovingly nicknamed "Princess Tiger Eyes" by the prince, arrived late at the altar, the impatient groom scolded her untenderly in English, "You're awfully late, dear."

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the first time he had touched her untenderly; and she quivered in every nerve.

From Captain Desmond, V.C. by Diver, Maud

He throws it down untenderly beside the papers; then folds his arms, and is looking at it with grim distaste when Lady Cicely enters.

From Captain Brassbound's Conversion by Shaw, Bernard

The man could not rise, and Griswold dragged him not untenderly out of the way of the others.

From The Price by Lynde, Francis