hardhanded
- a variation of hard-handed.
Example Sentences
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A hulking, hardhanded man with a severe Stalin-style mustache, Gorky is best remembered for his grinding portraits of working-class life in the years immediately preceding the Russian Revolution.
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One national Communist who eluded the Stalin purges in Rumania was Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, a hardhanded railroad worker turned revolutionary.
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Though he went on painting portraits for a living, he spent his spare time turning out weird pictures of hardhanded, black-skinned coffee workers.
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And in the wake of his confrontation with his school board, he has found himself under a drumfire of criticism by other inner-city principals who take issue with his hardhanded style.
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Tracy is a hardhanded Irish-American priest whose parish is a small French-owned island in the South Pacific.
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