Coarse-handed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Coarse-handed is an adjective meaning Rough, lacking refinement or sophistication.
Meaning
Rough, lacking refinement or sophistication.
Example Sentences
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.
But he had no prejudice against Englishmen, and even at a certain time when the coarse-handed British criticism began to blame his delicate art for the universal acceptance of his verse, and to try to sneer him into the rank of inferior poets, he was without rancor for the clumsy misliking that he felt.
Word Forms
- coarsehanded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include coarsehanded, coarse, rough-grained, coarse-grained, roughsome, low-minded.
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