gentlesome

comparative more gentlesome · superlative most gentlesome

1. Characterised or marked by gentleness; mild; tender.

   A timid and gentlesome frog approached her, gravely bowed in a groove below her flexed kneecap.

   2005, Jeremy Hoemsen, Okanagan University College, Bible Prophecies Revealed

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   'Yes, Else,' I said, my voice quiet & most gentlesome. “You are not mistaken, & then I raised my veil & smiled wide, wide, wide. [...]”

   2008, Liz Jensen, My Dirty Little Book of Stolen Time

   Not that he weren't capable of a gentlesome word or a tender touch, but such as that come to him less natural than any living creature I ever seen.

   2015, Bruce Olds, Raising Holy Hell

   Even more surprising was how he loved to rock Annie Mae, talk to her in the most gentlesome way.

   2023, Ron Rash, The Caretaker