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coarse-handed

coarse-handed adjective: rough, lacking refinement or sophistication.

Adjective

coarse-handed (comparative more coarse-handed, superlative most coarse-handed)

  1. Rough, lacking refinement or sophistication.
    • But he had no prejudice against Englishmen, and even at a certain time when the coarse-handed British criticism began to blame his delicate art for the universal acceptance of his verse, and to try to sneer him into the rank of inferior poets, he was without rancor for the clumsy misliking that he...2015, William Dean Howells, Of Literature, →ISBN
    • A form of projection, he had been told by a psychiatrist at Holloman out in New Mexico, a coarse-handed woman who wore a flight suit and stuck pencils in her hair.2014, Mark Powell, The Sheltering: A Novel, →ISBN

Forms of coarse-handed

comparativemore coarse-handed
superlativemost coarse-handed
alternative formcoarsehanded

Origin of coarse-handed

From coarse + handed.

Questions about coarse-handed

What does coarse-handed mean?
Coarse-handed means rough, lacking refinement or sophistication.
What part of speech is coarse-handed?
Coarse-handed is an adjective.

Words near coarse-handed in the dictionary

  1. coarse fish
  2. coarse-grained
  3. coarse-grainedness
  4. coarse-graining
  5. coarse-grainings
  6. coarse-handed
  7. Coarsegold
  8. coarsehanded
  9. coarsely
  10. coarsen
  11. coarsened

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