Dead-handedness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being dead-handed. uncountable

    "If that is not bureaucratic nonsense enough and smacking of that terrible dead-handedness that lurks in all our megalopic jugger- Departments, ..."

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"If that is not bureaucratic nonsense enough and smacking of that terrible dead-handedness that lurks in all our megalopic jugger- Departments, ..."

Etymology

From dead-handed + -ness.

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