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
Bill, a loose-jointed, middle-aged, flat-footed, large-handed, semi-loafer, with keen gray eyes, looked up from a bundle he was roping.
From Rolf in the Woods by Ernest Thompson Seton
He said it with a consciousness of large-handed generosity.
From In the Year of Jubilee by George Gissing
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 Emerson Hough
In this almost primeval region the large-handed fashion of primitive transactions is still in vogue.
From The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair
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