Lily-handed

Quick meaning: Lily-handed is an adjective meaning Characterised by a delicate and pale-skinned beauty.

Meaning

Characterised by a delicate and pale-skinned beauty.

More Meanings

1. Having hands that are white due to lack of outdoor work; Unaccustomed to physical labor.
2. Fastidious and foppish.

Example Sentences

The fishermen looked at Malcolm, who compared to them seemed incredibly soft and lily-handed.

Rawlings' defaulter is encumbered, most disgracefully, with the usual blonde, in this case the lily-handed cashier in a motion picture shop;

“Let me see your passport,” said old Bill, “I mean your hand.” He was looking for the marks of toil. Alas, sometimes for a lily-handed parson!

'I know more than any lily-handed pill-roller from the city,' he gasped as well as he could, trying to raise himself from the pillow and failing.

Word Forms

• lilyhanded

Synonyms for lily-handed

Depending on context, synonyms include ethereal, white-handed, soft-handed, uncalloused, dainty, dandy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include white-handed, lily-white, delicate, fairhanded, dainty, tender-handed.

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