gentleness
Example Sentences
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Sweetly recreating Michael’s delicate speaking voice and his gentleness while avoiding coming across as too weird, Mr. Jackson is so charming that it’s easy to forget about Michael’s sins for two hours.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Masi said her son was a confident child, "always kind and full of patience and gentleness".
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
I started to believe I might actually be worthy of gentleness, of belonging.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2025
Worse, it is a subtle form of victim-blaming, as it implies that the targets of defamation can make it stop by responding with gentleness instead of anger.
From Salon • Nov. 12, 2024
Tom was a nice mixture of savagery and gentleness.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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Vocabulary lists containing gentleness
"American Names"
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Suffixes: -ness
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The Suffix -ness, Part 2
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