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naked-handedly

naked-handedly adverb: in a naked-handed manner.

Adverb

naked-handedly (comparative more naked-handedly, superlative most naked-handedly)

  1. In a naked-handed manner.
    • Mr. Adcock, therefore, fought the dog naked-handedly, and in the great struggle that ensued continually threw the dog to prove that he was master!1930, Edward Cecil Ash, The practical dog book, page 62
    • I know that I am naked-handedly meeting the world's most worshiped god, — Conventionality, — the trouble-maker-in-chief, — who in his almighty sway has successfully prevented more than a zigzag stream of progress...1907, Nathaniel Clark Fowler, How to Get and Keep a Job, page 225

Forms of naked-handedly

comparativemore naked-handedly
superlativemost naked-handedly

Origin of naked-handedly

From naked-handed + -ly.

Questions about naked-handedly

What does naked-handedly mean?
Naked-handedly means in a naked-handed manner.
What part of speech is naked-handedly?
Naked-handedly is an adverb.

Words near naked-handedly in the dictionary

  1. naked singularities
  2. naked singularity
  3. naked truth
  4. naked-eye
  5. naked-handed
  6. naked-handedly
  7. nakeder
  8. nakedest
  9. nakedhood
  10. nakedise
  11. nakedised

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