Cross-handedly

adv

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Adverb
  1. 1
    In a cross-handed manner.

    "Then, before he could react, she leaned over and hit him twice, cross-handedly, across his face, once with each hand, open-handed ."

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"Then, before he could react, she leaned over and hit him twice, cross-handedly, across his face, once with each hand, open-handed ."

Etymology

From cross-handed + -ly.

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