loose-handed
Part of speech: adj
adv
Morphological type: compound
Topics: art
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Etymology: From loose + handed.
Compound parts: loose
handed
Inflected forms:
form: more loose-handed
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most loose-handed
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: more loose-handed
pos: adv
tags: comparative
form: most loose-handed
pos: adv
tags: superlative
Senses:
gloss: With open hand (as opposed to a fist).
pos: adj
examples: His punches alternated between uppercuts and loose-handed swipes.
He was holding back, a little. The blows were loose-handed.
A diamond ring flashes as he gestures, not with the thrust of a clenched fist but with loose-handed waves.
gloss: Characterized by broad sweeping movements.
pos: adj
examples: "When you are here," Martin cups the air vaguely in loose-handed gesture, "do you feel the freedom around you? Can you feel it?"
Varney made an impatient, down-sweeping, loose-handed gesture. "Quit it, Cole!" he said angrily.
The chain has a whipping action-like many of the loose-handed whipping motions of the Northern bare-handed styles.
gloss: Casual; undisciplined or haphazard.
pos: adj
examples: 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 hairdo, and — last but not at all least — the absence of any inappropriate outbursts from Mrs. Geraldine Fessmire who, on the other hand, appeared especially groggy and inattentive during the whole event, making Elba Rae Van Oaks wonder if anyone ever especially audited Mr. Garland's loose-handed administration of her medicines.
The rather loose-handed ways in which Wilson presented his history and the generalizations he dared to make are also visible in later years.
Miss Fidger was the most delightfully loose-handed housekeeper that ever muddled up baker's, butcher's, and washerwomen's bills in one indiscriminate mass.
gloss: Lenient, permissive.
pos: adj
examples: First, it was traditionally subject to loose-handed regulation, which opened the possibility of returns above the cost of capital to offset.
Why should Life be a cruel taskmaster, gaunt and grim, priggish and precise, and not the jolly, generous, loose-handed friend who winks at faults, overlooks lapses, and lets things run free in a happy-go-lucky kind of way, the margin not counting?
He was the most loose-handed husband possible with the marriage-reins with regard to every thing except money; and his wife had she been so minded, might have enjoyed any amount of questionable independence.
gloss: Spendthrift, profligate.
pos: adj
examples: I was so eager to make their bedclothes agreeable and nice, I am afraid I was a bit loose-handed with the starch bottle.
From their hair styles to their clothing, from their ability to be patient (Cappy can, Leo can't), and from their banking practices (Cappy's a bit tightfisted, Leo a little loose-handed) to their speech (Cappy's is somewhat shy and gentle, Leo's is eloquent and dramatic), and from their method of reaching for the brass ring on the carousel (Cappy is watchful and carefully calculating, Leo is daring and impulsive), it sometimes seems as though they are from two different Universes.
Lear may teach us to draw the line more clearly between a wise generosity and loose-handed weakness of giving;
By the smaller section of it—poor, unthrifty, loose-handed fools—who belied the province of their birth so far as to be quick to spend and slow to save, and who therefore fell into want and famine and had to borrow of others their children's bread, the old miller was hated with a hate deeper and stronger because foced to be mute, and to submit, to cringe, and to be trod upon, in the miserable servitude of the hopeless debtor.
gloss: Aimless
pos: adj
examples: 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.
Harmen Gerritszoon himself was not a moldered corpse nor an old man remembering, wordless and loose-handed, in the sun;
He's some loose-handed fellow with nothing to do.
gloss: Wild or uncontrolled.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
We had to hold our teams about half an hour until the immense herd passed. Men that were loose-handed fired many shots among them, and three bucks were killed.
That cutpurse of the ocean and his loose-handed crew were effectually cured of their ambition to colonize.
gloss: Involving wrist action.
pos: adj
examples: 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?
Then some sand wedges—loose-handed flop shots, cut shots, back in stance, forward in stance, different kinds of lies in the sand bunker.
With the currently popular loose-handed grip, the wrist maintains a certain amount of flexibility.
In the very first place, cultivate a “loose-handed” way of hitting the ball— the arm should never be rigid and should snap the ball rather like a willow withe than strike it stiffly, as with a baseball bat.
gloss: Sketchy and flowing rather than geometric and precise.
pos: adj
examples: In a search for the complex shifts of form in the foot's shaping, the drawings present a loose-handed version of planar slices.
On the wall to his right, loose-handed paintings in dark, pungent red boasted familiar shapes; varied angles of human faces, mouths stretched open, lips curled back, eyes bulging, teeth clenched and grinding.
Smith not only replaced Warhol's purposely bland flavors with posole (white hominy) which is popular in the Southwest, she also replaced Warhol's clinical rendition of the can with a loose-handed drawing and applied a jolly background ....
gloss: With a poor grip.
pos: adv
examples: 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.
Exiting in the order of their deaths: Senhora Teixeira, holding her unlit torch loose-handed, helping Maria Elena up the stair.
That night at supper we heard the crash from the kitchen. "Well," said Amos, for I went on eating, "there you are. Loose-handed, just like I thought."
Derived words: loose-handedly
loose-handedness
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