kid-glove

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Recent Examples of kid-glove That’s not, and shouldn’t be, an activity given kid-glove treatment. Outside Online, 5 Mar. 2025 Even as the regime’s aggression has escalated, this president has continued a kid-glove treatment against the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism in a desperate hope to secure a deal. Sen. Ted Budd, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 31 Jan. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kid-glove
Adjective
  • Rather, more parents should welcome, rather than react defensively, when another parent steps in to support your efforts to teach your kids courteous manners.
    Elisabeth Sherman, Parents, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Described as courteous, hard-working, and helpful who doesn't take the spotlight and does the right things.
    Andy Humbles, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Republicans insist Zelenskyy hasn’t been sufficiently obsequious to the United States, which is a point Vance hammered.
    The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Listen to this article Mayor Michelle Wu, just a week after what her obsequious supporters hailed as a virtuoso performance before a hostile congressional oversight panel, finds herself suddenly under a harsh federal microscope.
    Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 15 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Though he was disappointed by the loss, Page didn't demonstrate any further wrestling tactics on Seacrest and ended the show with a polite handshake.
    Shania Russell, EW.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • His boss and co-worker remember him as quiet, polite and professional.
    James Bandler, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • If this were a civil case, the parties would likely file motions for summary judgment, and the judge would be able to offer an explanation of how the law applies to the evidence adduced at trial.
    Andrea Tinianow, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
  • In civil cases, confidential settlements can resolve matters that might have taken years to go to trial, by allowing those accused of wrongdoing to minimize any publicity.
    David W. Chen, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Stalin willed into being socialist realism, a hagiographic style that crept into art forms like music and painting.
    Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2025
  • This is the same notion that makes this more of a hagiographic portrait than a truly thoughtful biographical film.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Leavitt and her colleagues could stock the briefing room’s front rows with sycophantic figures – or move more serious questioners to the back.
    Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2025
  • No wonder, Maher at the end of the show went after Trump, his sycophantic cabinet and the MAGA crowd for threatening our former closest ally Canada and openly talking about a third term.
    Dominic Patten, Deadline, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • So Alex dons a uniform, buses tables and engages in servile labor for the first time in her life.
    Kimberly Roots, TVLine, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Trump’s servile devotion to Putin becomes the new norm overnight as Republicans cower in support of Trump’s new Putin policy.
    Bob Kustra, Chicago Tribune, 7 Mar. 2025

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“Kid-glove.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kid-glove. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.

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