White-handed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: White-handed is an adjective meaning Having hands that are white.
Meaning
Having hands that are white.
More Meanings
- Characterized by delicacy and a pale-skinned beauty.
- Aristocratic, with connotations of effeminacy and foppishness.
- From the professional classes; With hands that are not brown from manual labor.
- Benevolent or virtuous.
Example Sentences
Among the successful there were scarcely any of the head-working, white-handed class, but a number of hard-working, frugal men, who, landing without a penny,.
A white-handed, useless young aristocrat, by your account, married to a preacher's daughter, without capital, or useful knowledge, or any handicraft to live by.
Also by that time, he doubtless thinks, a white-handed aristocrat like Herbert will have tired of the affair and betaken himself back to the Towers where he belongs.
His battle is for bread, while white-handed theorists, who never placed a palm to an implement of labor, gather shrewdly into well-filled safes all the products of honest .
Word Forms
- whitehanded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include whitefaced, white-livered, white-faced, whitelike, whity, white-haired.
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