Sekirov Dictionary

loose-handed

adjective 9
adverb 1
forms 2

adjective9

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With open hand (as opposed to a fist).
- His punches alternated between uppercuts and loose-handed swipes. — 2011
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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?" — 1999
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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? — 2013
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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. — 2013
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Casual; undisciplined or haphazard.
- The rather loose-handed ways in which Wilson presented his history and the generalizations he dared to make are also visible in later years. — 2002
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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. — 2012
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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. — 2010
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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. — 1983
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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. — 2011

adverb1

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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. — 2009

forms

more loose-handed · most loose-handed

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