delicate-minded

At the risk of offending the more delicate-minded reader, I dare posit that if you ever found yourself surrounded by the impoverished, light-blue residents of "Vermont Avenue" you would be seized not with the desire to furnish them with teaser-rate ARMs, but instead to get the hell out of there as fast as your little wheelbarrow could carry you.

Ted Mulkerin: Fiscal Lessons from the Monopoly Man 2009

It is not wise to give public prohibitions and yet there are cases when the advice of a wise and delicate-minded friend is of great advantage to a young lady in her reading.

Acting 'Natural': Vanity Fair and the UnMasking of Anglo-American Sentiment 2006

It is the game of these men, and of their profligate organs, to make the strife of politics so fierce and brutal, and so destructive of all self-respect in worthy men, that sensitive and delicate-minded persons shall be kept aloof, and they, and such as they, be left to battle out their selfish views unchecked.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

There came persons of small independent means, old men who were thin and shrivelled-up, idlers who entered because they had nothing to do, and who looked at the bodies in a silly manner with the pouts of peaceful, delicate-minded men.

Archive 2007-08-01 JE 2007

There came persons of small independent means, old men who were thin and shrivelled-up, idlers who entered because they had nothing to do, and who looked at the bodies in a silly manner with the pouts of peaceful, delicate-minded men.

Morgues in Parisian Popular Culture (1867) JE 2007

And I know too, that, bating a certain tacit avoidance of any allusion to to-morrow; such as may be supposed to prevail between delicate-minded turnkeys, and a sensitive prisoner who is to be hanged next morning; we got on very well, and, all things considered, were merry enough.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

Suppose you were to use a grossly improper gesture to a delicate-minded woman — it is how she would look.

The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006

It is the game of these men, and of their profligate organs, to make the strife of politics so fierce and brutal, and so destructive of all self-respect in worthy men, that sensitive and delicate-minded persons shall be kept aloof, and they, and such as they, be left to battle out their selfish views unchecked.

Contributions to All the Year Round 2004

She found life dull, and fell in love a trifle here and there perhaps, even then, but she was faithful and delicate-minded.

A Wanderer Plays on Muted Strings 2003

Suppose you were to use a grossly improper gesture to a delicate-minded woman -- it is how she would look.

Science Fiction Hall of Fame Various, 1973