forehandedness
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a word derived from
forehanded.
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, smiling Generalissimo Franco was exhibiting his other distinctive characteristics: caution, thoroughness, quick decision, forehandedness.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There ain't anything specially lovable about forehandedness, when you come to that.
From The Village Watch-Tower by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
"I was prepared for just such a request, a perfectly natural request," he answered Withers question, plainly approving of his own forehandedness.
From The Winning Clue by James Hay
"Let me felicitate you on your forehandedness," Harleston called from the next room.
From The Cab of the Sleeping Horse by John Reed Scott
Any God's quantity of fuss and flubdub to bury a man, and not an ounce of forehandedness in the whole outfit to find out whether he was rightly dead.
From Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling