tenderer

The sky was not altogether blue; it was grey rather, but of a tenderer grey than any blue.

That a special exhortation should be given to those of tenderer years had been deliberately resolved upon.

I have never seen deeper, tenderer, and sadder eyes, finer and softer hair; I never saw hands so exquisite.

Never man saw a gentler madness, a tenderer folly, a more inoffensive and more friendly eccentricity.

He was tenderer toward her than he had been for years, yet her heart detected the fact that the tenderness was a sham.