See tough-love on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2000, Malinda Teel, Fortitude: True Stories of True Grit, page 87:",
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"ref": "2002, John Cantwell Kiley, The Breakaway Pope, page 41:",
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"(informal, transitive) To practice tough love; to treat someone with compassion but applying stringent discipline in order to improve their behavior."
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