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
I had heard that the people back in the country were large-handed, large-hearted, and liberal, but we must be mistaken.
From From Jest to Earnest by Roe, Edward Payson
The large-handed and once generous methods of the old range now began to narrow themselves.
From The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West by Hough, Emerson
Pope Theodorus is recorded in the book of the Popes as “a lover of the poor, large-handed, kind to all, and very merciful”.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.
In the magnificent dimensions assigned to the thoroughfare opened up by him in the neighbourhood of Petersfield, we have probably a visible expression of the large-handed generosity which a pleasant windfall is apt to inspire.
From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry
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