Meaning of hardhanded | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Forceful, excessive, draconian, or abusive.
2. Working-class; having hands hardened from labor.

Examples

“'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean⟳ hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope⟳ of better things, the chance to win⟳, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe, / And wanton vagrants, as make⟳ London, vaſt / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.”

“To deliver⟳ out of that Egyptian bondage to Wretchedness, and Ignorance, and Sin, the hardhanded millions”

“Martin Van Buren—plain, republican, hardhanded-democratic-locofoco Martin Van Buren—has [the East Room] now garnished with gold framed mirrors 'as big as a barn door,'”

“He's a hard man, hardhanded, hard-hearted, he doesn't strike⟳ me.”

“To deliver⟳ out of that Egyptian bondage to Wretchedness, and Ignorance, and Sin, the hardhanded millions, of whom this hardhanded, earnest witness, and writer, is here representative.”

“One reason⟳ why Peter Quince and his actors make⟳ such a fine mess of the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe is they are 'Hardhanded men that work⟳ in Athens here'.”

“All experience⟳ proves that capital invariably secures the lion's share⟳ of the products and profits of hardhanded industry.”

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