tenderhearted
Example Sentences
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But to hear the story from his mother, who also called in, Lang was a tenderhearted and selfless man who got swept up in an unjust crackdown.
From Slate ● Jan. 8, 2025
Here, the medium is the message; the rest is as nasty — and ultimately chaotic, tenderhearted, and yes, joyful — as it wants to be.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2023
Kathy is even more tenderhearted about animals than her dad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2023
His Santa is a thoughtful guy, made wearily cynical by the commercialization of Christmas, tenderhearted in his treatment of kids on his Nice list and devoted to Mrs. Claus after all their centuries together.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
The other patients in the ward, all but the Texan, shrank from him with a tenderhearted aversion from the moment they set eyes on him the morning after the night he had been sneaked in.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
