tenderfoot

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

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

He joins a long and eclectic tradition of tenderfoot film-makers making good on their cinematic dreams – some of whom started even younger.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 13, 2019

While elegant with white-plaster walls, stainless-steel kitchen appliances and posh comforts, the cabin’s not a total tenderfoot, either.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 1, 2015

No wonder he’s like a boot, hard on the outside, giving shape to a pulp of tenderfoot.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood

Once in the woods, teachers fell back, leaving tenderfeet to find their way together.

From New York Times ● Jun. 25, 2021

But there’s an advantage to being a freshman in a big class like this one — as tenderfeet, they’re not bound by deals and pacts made in previous sessions.

From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2011

In it, Stallone stands off not only the sheriffs blundering posse but, eventually, hundreds of tangle-footed tenderfeet from the National Guard, in the process giving an artful demonstration of guerrilla warfare.

From Time Magazine Archive

Idaho, which has almost twice as much trout water as California and Oregon combined, and only about a tenth as many fishermen, has plenty of other streams where tenderfeet can do better.

From Time Magazine Archive

They had to be broken to the saddle and bridle and ridden by somebody, and I wish to state that it was a work that required an expert, all green-horns and tenderfeet barred.

From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Dennis Collins

It could betray to our peers the awful truth that we are still greenhorns, tenderfoots, newbies.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

But I’m free to confess if a parson and a crew of psalm-singing tenderfoots came here, I’d like enough pull my freight again—and that time for keeps!

From The Heart of Canyon Pass by Thomas K. Holmes

It was a tranquil time, a time of lolling under trees and playing the wild game of mumbly-peg, and of jollying tenderfoots, and waiting for supper.

From Tom Slade's Double Dare by R. Emmett (Robert Emmett) Owen

They-all ain't sech tenderfoots as to keep on comin' when we've stopped.

From The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde

That Joe Hurley oughtn’t to let you tenderfoots out of his sight.

From The Heart of Canyon Pass by Thomas K. Holmes