loose-handed
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loose-handed
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From loose + handed.
adjective more loose-handed · most loose-handed
- With open hand (as opposed to a fist). His punches alternated between uppercuts and loose-handed swipes.
- Characterized by broad sweeping movements. "When you are here," Martin cups the air vaguely in loose-handed gesture, "do you feel the freedom around you? Can you feel it?"
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Casual; undisciplined or haphazard.
It was a state of being cumulatively nurtured by a flawless execution of the protocol rehearsed the evening prior (save for her own out-of-order seating), the forgiving tailoring of the bride's gown that gave away no secrets, the fact Mrs. June Helen Grinbar had seen fit to address her mess of a hai
Similar: chaotic, unruly, out of control, anarchic, anarchical, bratty, difficult, dionysiac, dionysian, disciplineless, fractious, governless
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Lenient, permissive.
First, it was traditionally subject to loose-handed regulation, which opened the possibility of returns above the cost of capital to offset.
Similar: easygoing, lax, soft-handed, clement, forbearing, indulgent, lenient, loose-handed, permissible, permissive, relaxed, remissful
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Spendthrift, profligate.
I was so eager to make their bedclothes agreeable and nice, I am afraid I was a bit loose-handed with the starch bottle.
Similar: improvident, squandering, wasteful, extravagant, imprudent, lavish, loose-handed, prodigal, profligate, reckless, spendthrift, uneconomical
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Aimless
I'm a model convalescent if I'm waited on by anonymous people whose job it is, but very bad at sitting loose-handed about our own small rooms.
Similar: directionless, feckless, purposeless
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Wild or uncontrolled.
In San Diego, at the zoo, this cousin's four-year-old son, left loose-handed by a gossipy mother, had been drawn between the bars and trampled on by a suddenly rogue elephant.
Similar: loose, on the loose, out of control, out of hand, ungoverned
- Involving wrist action. In which method of receiving the puck—with a fixed stick or a loose-handed stick—do you apply a bigger force to the puck?
- Sketchy and flowing rather than geometric and precise. In a search for the complex shifts of form in the foot's shaping, the drawings present a loose-handed version of planar slices.
adverb more loose-handed · most loose-handed
- With a poor grip. If Daklan had drawn the sword from his flesh then there would be more blood than he could have stanched, but Daklan was now stumbling away, loose-handed, then falling.
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title = {loose-handed},
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year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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