large-handed

Adjective

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

1. Having hands that are large.
   • (Much luck Natalie will have, with those freckles), Margot thought, her spite laced with a slipping envy, knowing herself too squat and large-handed to compete with the prettier women like Natalie, freckles or not.2014, Diana Marcellas, Mother Ocean, Daughter Sea, →ISBN
   • Burgundian sword in iron, about 3 feet 3 inches in length, imluding the. haft, which is very long, and proves that it must have been used by a robust and large-handed race.1870, Auguste Demmin, Weapons of War, →ISBN, page 153
2. Spending or giving in large quantities; generous or spendthrift.
   • At the instigation of Colbert, whose rigid honesty was scandalised by Fouquet's large-handed and prodigal corruption, Louis determined to curb these soaring aspirations.1849 July, Comte De Tocqueville, “Histoire Philosophique du Règne de Louis XV”, in Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, page 50
   • Yet I do not call to mind that I was ever in my earlier youth the subject of remark in our social family circle, but some large-handed person took some such ophthalmic steps to patronize me.1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
3. Greedy, rapacious.
   • Bound servants, steal! Large-handed robbers your grave masters are, And pill by law!1623, William Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
   • It was the beginning of a feudalism of the range, a barony rude enough, but a glorious one, albeit it began, like all feudalism, in large-handed theft and generous murdering.1921, Emerson Hough, The Passing of the Frontier: A Chronicle of the Old West, page 34