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View synonyms for tenderly

tenderly

[ ten-der-lee ]

adverb

  1. in a soft and gentle way:

    He took time to polish his new leather shoes tenderly with his handkerchief.

    The wind we hated so much while climbing is now tenderly drying the sweat from our brows.

  2. in an affectionate, loving, or kindhearted way:

    He looked down tenderly at his baby daughter.

  3. sensitively or carefully, as to avoid pain:

    Moving tenderly, she attempted to raise herself from the floor where she had fallen.



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Example Sentences

The dynamic between them, on stage and off, is tenderly supportive.

This can be a lonely desire because so many people in my life have economically and emotionally stable families, so I hold this space tenderly.

She moves on, tenderly tracing her fingers across the textures of her paintings as if they were still-healing scars.

So much of this psychologically complex movie’s artistry is wonderfully assured, from cinematographer Wilson Cameron’s textured intimacy with nature and faces, to the tenderly applied, deceptively varied music.

A year ago he was still in the summery afterglow of the Coronation, in which the Prince of Wales had played a central role, rather tenderly supporting his father the King.

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