Gentlehanded
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Gentlehanded is an adjective meaning Alternative form of gentle-handed.
Meaning
Alternative form of gentle-handed.
Example Sentences
“So,” he agreed, beguiled by her keen-eyed, gentlehanded exploration.
The emergency cars still answer all routine calls and one night a gentlehanded surgeon found himself helping to disarm a maniac with a shotgun.
If a clever, kind, gentlehanded little girl could get a crumb of bread down their throats, it would do no harm; but all rough, violent, clumsy manipulation is as bad as the throat-tickling of the hard-fingered hangman.
...you went in but where you hurried every Sunday morning to scramble up on the huge bed, much bigger than your own bed, to bury yourself between Her softness and sweetsmellingness and His hardstubbled, gentlehanded roughness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include whitehanded, gentlehearted, manyhanded, fair-handed, over-handed, tender-minded.
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