large-handed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.38 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Spending or giving in large quantities; generous or spendthrift.
Example Sentences
- "(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."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more large-handed (comparative)
most large-handed (superlative)