dead-handed adjective 4adverb 1forms 2 adjective4 •Having very little wrist or hand action.Then simply hit a dead-handed chip, with the hands, wrists and arms all swinging together as if in a solid block. — 1984 •Having limp or weak hands.My mother laughs from her grave, such are my sewing skills, but among these dead-handed men my wielding of a needle is nothing short of a miracle. — 2012 •Mindless, plodding, or passive; stultifyingNo, it was stupid, dead-handed higher authority that made the army dead: absolutely fool-dead. — 1928 •Red-handed; having clear evidence of guilt.Charlie blushed as if he had been caught in the act of dead-handed idiocy. — 2014 adverb1 •Red-handed, with clear evidence of guilt.Your man is caught dead-handed. He has the gun in his hand, or the marijuana in the car, or the narcotics in his suitcase... — 1978 formsmore dead-handed · most dead-handed
