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cack-handedly

cack-handedly adverb: in a cack-handed manner.

Adverb

cack-handedly (comparative more cack-handedly, superlative most cack-handedly)

  1. In a cack-handed manner.
    • There was only one reason Siobhan could think of why anyone would do all of that, and try to cack-handedly cover up the fact by booking another flight to Bristol at the same time.2014, Gerard O'Donovan, Dublin Dead: A Novel, →ISBN, page 151
    • I had crewed for him once or twice, cack-handedly. He only took me out, I think, because for some reason he thought I was good for a laugh.2011, Aidan Chambers, Breaktime & Dance on My Grave, →ISBN, page 4

Forms of cack-handedly

comparativemore cack-handedly
superlativemost cack-handedly
alternative formcackhandedly

Origin of cack-handedly

From cack-handed + -ly.

Questions about cack-handedly

What does cack-handedly mean?
Cack-handedly means in a cack-handed manner.
What part of speech is cack-handedly?
Cack-handedly is an adverb.

Words near cack-handedly in the dictionary

  1. cacistocracy
  2. cack
  3. cack on
  4. cack up
  5. cack-handed
  6. cack-handedly
  7. cack-handedness
  8. Cackalacky
  9. cacked
  10. cacked on
  11. cacked up

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