Meaning of uphanded | Babel Free

Definitions

1. With hands held up or characterised by raising of hands.
2. Overbearing.

Examples

“For, as it regards myself, I confess, with humility, that in the earliest stage⟳ of my career I was the uphanded wonder⟳ of gossips even at my christening, and though only a few months old, (I was born in the longest day), I was considered a child of larger growth than any other of equal age, which made the vicar exclaim -- "Quae monstrant ipsi puer-is."”

“I can hold⟳ it up, I can hold⟳ it up and I feel⟳ everything drain right out of it, and if I go to pick⟳ up a cigarette now with this hand I can't pick⟳ it up if I hold⟳ this hand up in an uphanded position all the time.”

“In like⟳ manner, the sketch⟳ of the angel in the study⟳ is done in a dreamy, prayerful profile; but the angel depicted in the finished drawing looks out to the processional viewers with an open⟳, uphanded gesture, to initiate dynamically the sweeping curve of looks from face⟳ to face⟳, which at last⟳ goes out to the viewer”

““Pffshheeech!” whistled Sam with an uphanded salute.”

“Furthermore such an attitude becomes an abuse of the strong against the weak, exactly in the uphanded attitude adopted by Germany towards heroic Belgium, when she violated the latter's rights which were guaranteed by a Treaty.”

“Mr. Wilkinson took a very uphanded means and said that he was going to be indisposed for probably 30 days.”

“The managers brought from abroad were not aware of the local agricultural conditions; they came into conflict with the workers because of their uphanded attitudes”

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