naked-handedly

adv

Etymology

From naked-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 naked-handed — “naked + handed
  7. suffixed as naked-handedly — “naked-handed + ly

Definitions

  1. In a naked-handed manner.

    • Mr. Adcock, therefore, fought the dog naked-handedly, and in the great struggle that ensued continually threw the dog to prove that he was master!
    • I know that I am naked-handedly meeting the world's most worshiped god, — Conventionality, — the trouble-maker-in-chief, — who in his almighty sway has successfully prevented more than a zigzag stream of progress...

The neighborhood

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