kid-gloved

adjective

Definition of kid-glovednext
as in kid-glove

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  1. courteous
  2. civil
  3. polite
  4. obsequious
Adjective
  • There are other ways in which the platform’s design encourages courteous behavior among bald men and beyond.
    Oscar Holland, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
  • But the lines of what is courteous and expected of guests can get blurry.
    Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of courteous
Adjective
  • Indianapolis Star Former Indiana Attorney General Curtis Hill, who unsuccessfully ran for governor this year, will stand trial next week in a civil lawsuit accusing him of groping four women at a party following the end of the 2018 legislative session.
    Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Dec. 2024
  • In its least manageable moments, early motherhood must feel like an unpaid job with no breaks, an inarticulate boss and working conditions designed to strip all that’s civil from one’s sense of self.
    Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of civil
Adjective
  • The level of outward emotional expression here is simply kept at a level true to figures who may inwardly be reaching their boiling point, but are still held back by self-respect and polite manners.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Then Threads, which has a little bit of an issue of feeling kind of like LinkedIn and being very polite, but then has that benefit of Meta being able to push users from Instagram to Thread.
    Lauren Goode, WIRED, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of polite
Adjective
  • What was criminal in the eyes of Putin and occasioned Navalny’s death was his work exposing the tyrant, his obsequious oligarchs and lickspittle party United Russia as crooks, thieves and killers.
    Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 15 Nov. 2024
  • Sunny initially speaks in an obsequious ChatGPT-generic tone, but the robot gradually adopts Suzie’s speech patterns, softening Suzie’s initial skepticism.
    Kyle Chayka, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of obsequious
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