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short-handedly

short-handedly is the alternative form of shorthandedly.

Meaning of shorthandedly

Adverb

shorthandedly (comparative more shorthandedly, superlative most shorthandedly)

  1. In a shorthanded manner.
    • Some form of self-steering on a cruising yacht, whether electronic or wind powered, is a necessity if a vessel is to cruise shorthandedly in comfort and safety.1980 Jul-Dec, Peter Watson, “Do-it-yourself Wind Vane Steering Gear”, in Cruising World, page 116
  2. Using shorthand or as a form of shorthand.
    • Taking Gomery's well-argued point, it still seems that a new kind of publicity and new sets of social practices that can be shorthandedly described as "television" did replace the cinema as the central site of phantasmatic Americanness at this historical juncture.2000, Ronald M. Radano, Philip V. Bohlman, Music and the Racial Imagination, →ISBN, page 140

Forms of short-handedly

comparativemore short-handedly
superlativemost short-handedly

Questions about short-handedly

What is short-handedly the alternative form of?
Short-handedly is the alternative form of shorthandedly.

Words near short-handedly in the dictionary

  1. short-haired
  2. short-haired bumblebee
  3. short-haired bumblebees
  4. short-hand
  5. short-handed
  6. short-handedly
  7. short-handedness
  8. short-hands
  9. short-haul
  10. short-head seahorse
  11. short-head seahorses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: short-handedly (page history and authors); shorthandedly (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.

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