Meaning of gentlehanded | Babel Free

Definitions

Adjective. [C1]

Examples

“If a clever, kind, gentlehanded little girl could get⟳ a crumb of bread down their throats, it would do no harm⟳; but all rough, violent, clumsy manipulation is as bad as the throat-tickling of the hard-fingered hangman.”

“...you went in but where you hurried every Sunday morning to scramble up on the huge bed, much bigger than your own⟳ bed, to bury⟳ yourself between Her softness and sweetsmellingness and His hardstubbled, gentlehanded roughness.”

“The emergency cars still answer⟳ all routine calls and one night a gentlehanded surgeon found himself helping to disarm a maniac with a shotgun.”

““So,” he agreed, beguiled by her keen-eyed, gentlehanded exploration.”

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