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Meaning of tenderhanded | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR 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.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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