large-handed
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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For Wilbur the elder, the large-handed, the large-hearted, with the eye like the mock-turtle in Alice, caused more blush-worthy embarrassment during the Coolidge era than any other member of the Cabinet.
From Time Magazine Archive
There had been nothing large-handed or generous, according to his interpretation of the words, in Meredith.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
There is something rather royal and large-handed about it.
From Daisy's Aunt by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)
These men—like the large-handed cow barons of the Indian Nations, who had things much as they willed in a little unnoted realm all their own—had money and political influence.
From The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West by Hough, Emerson
Pope Theodorus is recorded in the book of the Popes as “a lover of the poor, large-handed, kind to all, and very merciful”.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.
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