deadhanded

Adjective (1)

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

1. Mindless, plodding, or passive; stultifying
   • No, it was stupid, dead-handed higher authority that made the army dead: absolutely fool-dead.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC
2. Having very little wrist or hand action.
   • Then simply hit a dead-handed chip, with the hands, wrists and arms all swinging together as if in a solid block.1984, George Peper, Golf's Supershots: How the Pros Played Them - How You Can Play Them, →ISBN
3. Having limp or weak hands.
   • My mother laughs from her grave, such are my sewing skills, but among these dead-handed men my wielding of a needle is nothing short of a miracle.2012, Bill Gaston, The World, →ISBN

Adjective (2)

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

1. Red-handed; having clear evidence of guilt.
   • Charlie blushed as if he had been caught in the act of dead-handed idiocy.2014, Emily Covington, Silver Follows, →ISBN

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