treat with kid gloves

verb

Synonym of handle with kid gloves.

Meanings

verbtreat with kid gloves (third-person singular simple present treats with kid gloves, present participle treating with kid gloves, simple past and past participle treated with kid gloves)

present singular third person treats with kid gloves · participle present treating with kid gloves · participle past treated with kid gloves · past treated with kid gloves

  1. Synonym of handle with kid gloves.

    Unlike Bing, GPT-4 usually flat-out refused to take the bait when I tried to get it to talk about consciousness, or get it to provide instructions for illegal or immoral activities, and it treated sensitive queries with kid gloves and nuance.

    2023 March 15, Kevin Roose, “GPT-4 Is Exciting and Scary”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 Mar 2023

    Synonyms: handle with kid gloves

Synonyms & antonyms

verbSynonym of handle with kid gloves.

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