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Kid-glove   /kɪd-gləv/   Listen
Kid-glove

adjective
1.
Showing skill and sensitivity in dealing with people.  Synonym: tactful.  "A tactful way of correcting someone" , "The agency got the kid-glove treatment on Capitol Hill"





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"Kid-glove" Quotes from Famous Books



... Towers's costume balls Mr. X, of American renown, dressed conspicuously as Jupiter (of all ironies!), stalked about, trying to act up to his part by shaking in people's faces his ridiculous tin bolts held in white kid-glove hands, and facetiously knocking them on the head. He happened, while talking to a lady, to be right in front of the young Prince. A friend tapped him discreetly on the shoulder, giving him a significant look. "What is the matter?" said ...
— The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 • Lillie DeHegermann-Lindencrone
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