tenderfooted

Example Sentences

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But that may be my tenderfooted inexperience showing.

From New York Times • May 26, 2011

Washington isn't a place for the softheaded or tenderfooted.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Shank's mare is tenderfooted, and there are twenty miles of stony hills and shaggy woods between here and the fort.

From The Red Moccasins A Story by Heady, Morrison

I being now relieved of this responsibility, stayed behind the train and drove the tenderfooted oxen.

From Blazing The Way True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Denny, Emily Inez

We came here, tenderfooted, and were most fortunate in finding a foreman like Kurt Walters.

From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Lyford, Philip