Word.ws English Dictionary

hardhandedly

hardhandedly adverb: in a hardhanded manner; harshly and strictly.

Adverb

hardhandedly (comparative more hardhandedly, superlative most hardhandedly)

  1. In a hardhanded manner; harshly and strictly.
    • His first stand-in parent is the sister who "brought [him] up by hand," hardhandedly flinging him like "a conjugal missile" and mauling him, physically and spiritually, at every turn.1999, Baruch Hochman, Ilja Wachs, Dickens: The Orphan Condition, page 169

Forms of hardhandedly

comparativemore hardhandedly
superlativemost hardhandedly
alternative formhard-handedly

Origin of hardhandedly

From hardhanded + -ly.

Questions about hardhandedly

What does hardhandedly mean?
Hardhandedly means in a hardhanded manner; harshly and strictly.
What part of speech is hardhandedly?
Hardhandedly is an adverb.

Words near hardhandedly in the dictionary

  1. Hardgroves
  2. hardhack
  3. hardhacks
  4. Hardham
  5. hardhanded
  6. hardhandedly
  7. hardhandedness
  8. hardhat
  9. hardhats
  10. hardhead
  11. hardheaded

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hardhandedly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hardhandedly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hardhandedly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.