tenderhearted

Example Sentences

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Both are essentially tenderhearted, which is perhaps not the most practical quality for their professions, but necessary for the story — we need to like them.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 6, 2025

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

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

“I am rather tenderhearted about animals, in fact.”

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood