large-handed

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having hands that are large.

   • (Much luck Natalie will have, with those freckles), Margot thought, her spite laced with a slipping envy, knowing herself too squat and large-handed to compete with the prettier women like Natalie, freckles or not.
   • Burgundian sword in iron, about 3 feet 3 inches in length, imluding the. haft, which is very long, and proves that it must have been used by a robust and large-handed race.
2. 2

   Spending or giving in large quantities

   Spending or giving in large quantities; generous or spendthrift.

   • At the instigation of Colbert, whose rigid honesty was scandalised by Fouquet's large-handed and prodigal corruption, Louis determined to curb these soaring aspirations.
   • Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronize me.
   • God loves a cheerful large-handed giver, and He is Himself the model and pattern of magnificence in giving.
3. 3

   Greedy, rapacious.

   • Bound servants, steal! Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, And pill by law!
   • It was the beginning of a feudalism of the range, a barony rude enough, but a glorious one, albeit it began, like all feudalism, in large-handed theft and generous murdering.
   • The critical players are not the consumers of Monopoly (enjoying the fun of playing large-handed capitalists), but the Georgists and Quakers making the game.

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