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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

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

And as long as a fresh herd of tenderfeet are ready to jump on the country-line bandwagon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then the tenderfeet, after twelve days of roughing it, beelined for the sybaritic comforts of their Mill Valley, Calif, home.

From Time Magazine Archive

You may have had good reasons for regarding tenderfeet with contempt, but now you will know all tenderfeet are not alike.

From Frank Merriwell's New Comedian The Rise of a Star by Burt L. Standish

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

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Oh, this ain’t no country for tenderfoots, son.

From Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers by W. Bertram Foster

In the rough field of experience the tenderfoots and greenhorns of the Silver Fox Patrol are fast learning to take care of themselves when abroad.

From The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades by J. Watson Davis

We've got a lot o' tenderfoots over there to-night, and I'm a little shy27 of Bailey's biscuits.

From The Moccasin Ranch A Story of Dakota by Hamlin Garland

Speakin' of tenderfoots, I heard of one over to Eldara the other night that raised considerable hell.

From Trailin'! by Max Brand