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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