Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without a hand or hands: as, a handless clock.
- Unhandy; awkward.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without a hand.
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- adjective
Without ahand . - adjective Without a
handle .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective without a hand or hands
- adjective lacking physical movement skills, especially with the hands
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Examples
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Tibbie had been notorious in her day for evil-speaking, especially for her free use of the word handless, which she flung a hundred times in a week at her man, and even at her old mother.
Auld Licht Idyls 1898
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Tibbie had been notorious in her day for evil-speaking, especially for her free use of the word handless, which she flung a hundred times in a week at her man, and even at her old mother.
Auld Licht Idylls 1898
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“How will we eat?” she wailed, pointing at his handless left arm.
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May the halt rid the horse, and the handless be herdsman.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Birth Defects as God’s Punishment for Abortion 2010
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Mr. Spota said a head and pair of hands found last month were those of Jessica Taylor , a 20-year-old prostitute from Washington, D.C. In July 2003 in a wooded area in Manorville, Long Island, a headless and handless body had been found by a woman walking her dog.
Multiple L.I. Killers Suspected Sean Gardiner 2011
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The song isthe melodramatic story of a young boy trying to sellcigarettes while bemoaning his poverty, his handless father, suicidal mother and dead sister.
First Weekend of the Jewish MusicFest: Saturday Night with the Kinsey Sicks « The Blog at 16th and Q 2009
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For the most part, the academy's renovation, overseen by Jane Stageberg of the architecture firm Bade Stageberg Cox, feels seamless, almost handless, as if many of the changes were cosmetic.
Modernizing the Academy Lance Esplund 2011
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With a little hard work and a lot of time, a headless, footless and handless body soon stood in my apartment.
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The halt may ride a horse; the handless may drive a herd; the deaf can fight and do well; better be blind than buried.
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Metal cracking metal and explosions - this is what I hear as I lie nakedAnd handless
I will bury you. 2010
seanahan commented on the word handless
Apparently this means awkward or clumsy. I guess this makes sense, if you think about what dexterous actually means.
December 8, 2007