Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having soft hands
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- adjective
gentle ,insufficient ,permissive ,nurturing ,lenient
Etymologies
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Examples
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She remembered the young bookkeeper at the laundry -- not a workingman, but a soft-handed, soft-voiced gentleman -- whom Charley had beaten up at the corner because he had been bold enough to come to take her to the theater.
CHAPTER VI 2010
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APE Knott, the nimble, soft-handed, jack in the box mastered the trade so extraordinarily that you could pass off calling any wicketkeeper "ape" as flattery.
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As one blue-collar brand after another—Levi's, Wrangler, Dr. Martens—has descended into galling hipsterism, co-opted by soft-handed college students who wear their irony like John Deere baseball caps, Carhartt has managed to stand apart, the secret handshake of the American yeomantry.
My Carhartt Detroit Jacket Dan Neil 2011
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*Murray 6-3, 1-1 Nishikori: A low volley from the net followed by a controlled cross-court soft-handed volley from Murray takes the first point.
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If such a crime happened today I think Polanski would not be given such a soft-handed treatment. teresa, ohio
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Some of the spongy green layer under the skin will also be removed, but don't worry about that, just try to be as soft-handed as possible.
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Some of the spongy green layer under the skin will also be removed, but don't worry about that, just try to be as soft-handed as possible.
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Indeed, this is how it's worked with most soft-handed Wall Street policies so far.
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McCan't trying to twist this makes him look soft-handed and over-ironed to them, and loses him two for every one it reinforces.
Obama On Lipstick Controversy: Attacks Media, Says "Enough Is Enough" 2009
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Journalists on TV who were sympathetic to the bailout, dripped with palpable contempt for the idea of "subsidizing unprofitable companies", something that didn't bother them when it was soft-handed professionals like themselves on the dole.
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