tender-minded

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tender-minded
Adjective
  • Additionally, the New Moon squares Jupiter in Cancer, expanding our sentimental and passionate horizons.
    Lisa Stardust, Refinery29, 20 Oct. 2025
  • As Crane hints, Brooke’s take on the eighteenth-century sentimental romance would be a controversial selection as Canada’s first.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 18 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The arrest stems from a civil matter regarding some zealous environmental attorneys seeking collection of attorney’s fees.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Its second season, dubbed Asylum, is set mostly in 1964 and follows the tales of the staff and inmates who occupy the fictional mental institution Briarcliff Manor, run by the Catholic Church and overseen by zealous nun Sister Jude (Jessica Lange).
    Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Orenbuch is also optimistic that credit will continue to improve after Ally tightened its underwriting in early 2023.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The optimistic take on this Georgia team depends on the defense reverting to the program standard.
    Seth Emerson, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Malinauskas opened the second box, which contained a Bell & Ross Regulateur with a big, moony face and a stainless-steel bezel.
    Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2019
  • Yet, Bronson still stood out, with his alternately creepy and moony portrayal of a man biding his time dating Wood’s mother while vying for the younger woman’s attention.
    Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
Adjective
  • When and how this messianic revolution would come about was up for debate and speculation, but large segments of the population, based on specific prophecies in the Hebrew Bible, believed that the time was at hand.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Much was remarkable about the event—the huge turnout, the alternating notes of forgiveness and retribution, the generally messianic atmosphere—but something that Pete Hegseth, the Fox host turned Pentagon chief, said onstage stood out to me.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Tender-minded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tender-minded. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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