Meaning of tenderhanded | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“Remember⟳ the adage that the tenderhanded surgeon makes stinging wounds, and lengthens the period of suffering and pain. The surgeon that has a firm hand to push⟳ the knife as deep as it ought to go, and pulls it out, and lets the pus flow⟳ out, that surgeon makes clean⟳ wounds, shortens pain, brings cure quickly about.”

“A foreign government always has to be rather tenderhanded in dealing with its subjects, because foreign rule⟳ is always rather explosive.”

“A playsure, an erasure/a damn cocksure toiffurier./Leave⟳ me to my/bewoahing, you tenderhanded hoisterier.”

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