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large-handed

adjective

  1. generous; profuse

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronise me.

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The Green Bay Packers brought QB hand size into fashion a few decades ago, thinking the large-handed could hold a ball better in cold weather, yet Brett Favre and his 10 three-eighths whoppers retired with the most fumbles in NFL history.

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The competition has had much wider, fuller screens for many generations and for the large-handed, the iPhone 5S can feel very small and not really up to the task of being a fully-featured smartphone.

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Not since he carried her purse at the London restaurants had he ever exhibited a large-handed kindness to subordinates.

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The aid rendered strikes me as having been of the handsomest—as is splendidly the case with all the aid America is rendering, in her own large-handed and full-handed way; of which you tell me such fine interesting things from your own experience.

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