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cack-handedly

Adverb CEFR C1

Definitions

In a cack-handed manner.

Examples

“There was only one reason⟳ Siobhan could think⟳ of why anyone would do all of that, and try⟳ to cack-handedly cover⟳ up the fact by booking another flight to Bristol at the same time.”
“I had crewed for him once or twice, cack-handedly. He only took me out, I think⟳, because for some reason⟳ he thought I was good for a laugh⟳.”
“Yet, though Charles II curiously concurred with Fox's view⟳ of Vane's character, the political point⟳ emerges rather cack-handedly: after all, Restoration magistrates took a very hard line with hatted Quakers appearing before them.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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