Meaning of large-handed | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Having hands that are large.
2. Spending or giving in large quantities; generous or spendthrift.
3. Greedy, rapacious.

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Examples

“(Much luck Natalie will have⟳, with those freckles), Margot thought, her spite laced with a slipping envy, knowing herself too squat and large-handed to compete⟳ with the prettier women like⟳ Natalie, freckles or not.”

“Burgundian sword in iron⟳, about 3 feet 3 inches in length, imluding the. haft, which is very long, and proves that it must have⟳ been used by a robust and large-handed race⟳.”

“He is a poor wretch, with a little thin fishy blood in his body, lean⟳ and flat, long-armed and large-handed, thick-jointed and thin-muscled -- you know⟳ those unwholesome, weak-eyed, half-fed creatures, that look⟳ not fit to be round among live⟳ folks, and yet not quite dead enough to bury⟳.”

“At the instigation of Colbert, whose rigid honesty was scandalised by Fouquet's large-handed and prodigal corruption, Louis determined to curb these soaring aspirations.”

“Yet I do not call⟳ to mind⟳ that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark⟳ in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronize me.”

“God loves a cheerful large-handed giver, and He is Himself the model⟳ and pattern of magnificence in giving.”

“Bound servants, steal⟳! Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, And pill by law!”

“It was the beginning of a feudalism of the range, a barony rude enough, but a glorious one, albeit it began, like⟳ all feudalism, in large-handed theft and generous murdering.”

“The critical players are not the consumers of Monopoly (enjoying the fun of playing large-handed capitalists), but the Georgists and Quakers making the game.”

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