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cackhandedly

cackhandedly is the alternative form of cack-handedly.

Meaning of cack-handedly

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

Forms of cackhandedly

comparativemore cackhandedly
superlativemost cackhandedly

Origin of cackhandedly

From cackhanded + -ly.

Questions about cackhandedly

What is cackhandedly the alternative form of?
Cackhandedly is the alternative form of cack-handedly.

Words near cackhandedly in the dictionary

  1. cacked up
  2. Cacker
  3. cackerel
  4. cackerels
  5. cackhanded
  6. cackhandedly
  7. cackhandedness
  8. cackier
  9. cackiest
  10. cacking
  11. cacking on

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