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tender-minded
(tender-minded)
adjective
easily affected emotionally by other people’s distress or by criticism:
the tender-minded neurotic swallows the whole theory
(as plural noun
the tender-minded
)
he wrote tolerantly of administrative massacres, no doubt to irritate the tender-minded
Derivatives
tender-mindedness
noun
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