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cack-handedly

adv

Etymology

From cack-handed + -ly.

  1. inherited from *handuz✻
  2. inherited from *handu✻
  3. inherited from hand
  4. inherited from hond
  5. suffixed as handed — “hand + ed”
  6. compounded as cack-handed — “cag + handed”
  7. suffixed as cack-handedly — “cack-handed + ly”

Definitions

  1. In a cack-handed manner.

    • There was only one reason Siobhan could think of why anyone would do all of that, and try to cack-handedly cover up the fact by booking another flight to Bristol at the same time.
    • I had crewed for him once or twice, cack-handedly. He only took me out, I think, because for some reason he thought I was good for a laugh.
    • Yet, though Charles II curiously concurred with Fox's view of Vane's character, the political point emerges rather cack-handedly: after all, Restoration magistrates took a very hard line with hatted Quakers appearing before them.

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