Meaning

White-collar; working at a desk job as opposed to manual labor..

Definitions by Sense

1. White-collar; working at a desk job as opposed to manual labor.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pink, handed.: having hands that are pink.
3. With clear evidence of guilt, red-handed.

Example Sentences

I know the pink-handed types who get jobs like this interviewer's got, and I know what he's trying to do to me.

The Western conceit is important because it allows Hernhuter to contrast the flat and tame backyard to the precipitous canyon and the colorful dialect of Nest with the bland generalizations of the pink-handed psychiatrist.

Lode mine investors were often distant financiers: soft, pink-handed men who earned their livings with pens, not hammers.

Squat and gnome-like it looked, silhouetted against the dying fire in the western sky; an odd, elfin-eared, pink-handed, hunchbacked manikin with a tail.

He was pink-cheeked, pink-handed and pink-nosed, all of which combined with his delft-blue eyes to make him look like a mature kewpie.

Pink-faced and pink-handed, Peter leaned over his wife's legs. He reached both hands to her waist and pulled away the lilac-colored garment.

Several major ISPs have been caught red-handed (or perhaps pink-handed) making agreements with known spammers.

'Hence you closed it as soon as I entered and are exhibiting facial capillary dilation and blush response, consistent with what I suspect matches the human phrase “caught red- or rather pink-handed”.'

Word Forms

• more pink-handed
• most pink-handed

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When Should You Use Pink-handed?

Use pink-handed when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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