coarse-handed

adj

Etymology

From coarse + handed.

  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 coarse-handed — “coarse + handed

Definitions

  1. Rough, lacking refinement or sophistication.

    • A form of projection, he had been told by a psychiatrist at Holloman out in New Mexico, a coarse-handed woman who wore a flight suit and stuck pencils in her hair.
    • The splendors of the foliage, subdued by the rains, the grandeur of the peaks, the song of the glorious stream all were lost on Berrie, for she now felt herself to be nothing but a big, clumsy, coarse-handed tomboy.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA