tenderfoot

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But one month later the Times accused “all Northern California” of conspiring against “Southland,” sending agents to “spy out the land and send the tenderfoot northward.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2025

She was 18, new to New York, a tenderfoot in an industry said to eat its young.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2024

Yet he was a tenderfoot compared with attorney James P. Guenther, “the SBC’s long-serving outside counsel,” as investigators put it, who “had provided legal advice since 1966.”

From Washington Post • May 24, 2022

Aiden McCleskey, a tenderfoot Scout from Boy Scout Troop 61 in Northwest Washington, wanted to “gather resources” for Ukrainian civilians who get caught in the line of fire.

From Washington Times • Mar. 21, 2022

“Your plan to show up Eugene Hammond as a tenderfoot at the butchering,” I said to refresh his memory.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck