free-handedness
- a word derived from free-handed.
Example Sentences
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Behind his magnificent free-handedness and careless disregard for money were hard, practical judgment, imagination and vision, and the daring of the big gambler.
From Burning Daylight by London, Jack
He, John Valiant—one of its vice-presidents! waster, on whose expenditures there had never been a limit, who had strewn with the foolish free-handedness of a prodigal!
From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie
Now those things which are the subject of a man's free-handedness towards others are the goods he possesses, which are denoted by the term "money."
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
Money of his own he had none, and his purse was always empty by reason of his free-handedness.
From The Christian A Story by Caine, Hall, Sir
Such was virtually the unuttered conclusion of many, who nevertheless imagined they understood the Book of Job, and who would have counted Warlock's rare honesty, pride or fastidiousness or unjustifiable free-handedness.
From Warlock o' Glenwarlock by MacDonald, George
