ADJECTIVE
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easily moved by another's distress
a noble tenderhearted creature who sympathizes with all the human race - easily moved to love
How To Use tenderhearted In A Sentence
- She was wonderful with animals and impossibly tenderhearted; every year she collected a menagerie of injured or abandoned creatures. LORD OF THE SILENT
- Here again is the rumbustious Silverstein sensibility, with its screwball humor, mixed-up whimsy, tenderheartedness and occasional dashes of vulgarity. When Life Depends On Scrabble
- Like so many other young British patricians, he was saved from becoming a complete emotional cripple by a tenderhearted nanny.
- Well, because of the young prince's tenderheartedness, there are jaguars roaming the mountain forests today. Gabriel Hawk's Lady
- It was done out of sheer tenderheartedness, but ... Ultima Thule
- Here again is the rumbustious Silverstein sensibility, with its screwball humor, mixed-up whimsy, tenderheartedness and occasional dashes of vulgarity. When Life Depends On Scrabble
- She was wonderful with animals and impossibly tenderhearted; every year she collected a menagerie of injured or abandoned creatures. LORD OF THE SILENT
- a noble tenderhearted creature who sympathizes with all the human race
- In caring for the sick, the Negro's tenderheartedness is conspicuous. History of Negro Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, and Other Items of Interest
- In Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum's "Ms. Hempel Chronicles," for example, the schoolteacher of the title imagines her students as "tenderhearted vultures. In Fiction, Opposites Attract