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Discover LudwigThe word "kid-glove" is correct and can be used in written English
It is often used to describe something as gentle, delicate, or careful. Example: She handled the situation with kid-glove, not wanting to upset anyone's feelings.
Idiom
Kid gloves.
If someone is handled with kid gloves, they are given special treatment and handled with great care.
Dictionary
kid-glove
adjective
Marked by extreme care or sensitivity.
synonyms
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"They're like kid-glove leather.
The result of the kid-glove treatment of his Republican opposition?
And he has dropped Mr Chirac's kid-glove treatment of Russia and China.
Many Washington lawyers say Mr. Silbert can be expected to get kid-glove treatment by prosecutors.
I usually get kid-glove treatment when I fly -- bonus miles, preferential seating and, often, upgrades.
The boot around the polished wood shifter is kid-glove soft.
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I like Sharps Kid Glove Shave Gel or LAB Series Maximum Comfort Shave Gel.
As Gore Vidal said in another context: you can handle shit with a kid glove.
We cannot continue this administration's kid glove approach to the supply and laundering of terrorist money.
Thick coarse white hair fell over his forehead and his skin was leathery but pale, yellowish-white like an old wrinkled-up kid glove.
The kid glove has retained supremacy as the aristocrat of gloves, but other kinds of leather are also utilized in modern glove manufacture, including capeskin, cabretta, pigskin, buckskin, reindeer skin, and lambskin, also called doeskin.
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