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Meanings of kid-glove in English

Showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people.

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Examples for "tactful"
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Constructive criticism will need to be couched in a very tactful way.
The South African
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However, it may be that a tactful, sensitive approach will be preferable!
The South African
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Sometimes, tactful isn't effective and we need to take a firmer approach.
News.com.au
4
In dress she should be exquisite, in conversation tactful, in manner sympathetic.
The Street Called Straight
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They wanted their medical providers to be honest, tactful, patient, and supportive.
Pubmed
Usage of kid-glove in English
1
I don't like your kid-glove philanthropists meddling in matters they don't understand.'
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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Another theory that could explain the kid-glove treatment for Jolie: Morton's next book.
Reuters
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She was on medication, but still required kid-glove handling at times.
The next to die
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He was a little too high-handed in his smooth, kid-glove way.
Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
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Jerome Steinberger was the son of a bankrupt kid-glove importer from New York.
The house of wittgenstein: a family at war
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The old kid-glove days, as between men and women, are over.
The Coryston Family / A Novel
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It did not amount to an inquisition, yet it was not kid-glove treatment either.
The Irish Times
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He owns entire the manufactory of the celebrated Alexandre kid-glove.
Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
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Life, as her brother had prophesied, was no kid-glove affair.
Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
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What Rhoda would call a 'kid-glove flavour,' I should say.
Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story
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You'll find that ordinary, everyday living isn't any kid-glove affair.
Big Timber: A Story of the Northwest
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Look a-here, Rans, I ain't none o' your kid-glove kind.
Five Thousand Dollars Reward
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It is wonderful how stupidly the kid-glove advocate reasons.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 / A Magazine ...
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Why do carbs always get the kid-glove treatment?
The new atkins for a new you: the ultimate diet for shedding wei...
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It was not a boiled shirt-front, kid-glove world.
The Freebooters of the Wilderness
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I don't like these kid-glove philanthropists mixing themselves up in practical labour disputes they don't understand.'
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
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Kid-glove through the time