large-handed
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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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.
From Literature
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.
From The Guardian
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.
From Forbes
Not since he carried her purse at the London restaurants had he ever exhibited a large-handed kindness to subordinates.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
From Project Gutenberg
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