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

I'm a cowman and a prospector, but I'm sure tenderfooted on water, an' they don't know punkins.

From Smoke Bellew by London, Jack

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

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

From Penny of Top Hill Trail by Lyford, Philip