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Loose-handed

adj, adv

Adjective

1
With open hand (as opposed to a fist).
"His punches alternated between uppercuts and loose-handed swipes."
2
Characterized by broad sweeping movements.
""When you are here," Martin cups the air vaguely in loose-handed gesture, "do you feel the freedom around you? Can you feel it?""
3
Casual; undisciplined or haphazard.
"It was a state of being cumulatively nurtured by a flawless execution of the protocol rehearsed the evening prior (save for her own out-of-order seating), the forgiving tailoring of the bride's gown that gave away no secrets, the fact Mrs. June Helen Grinbar had seen fit to address her mess of a hairdo, and — last but not at all least — the absence of any inappropriate outbursts from Mrs. Geraldine Fessmire who, on the other hand, appeared especially groggy and inattentive during the whole event, making Elba Rae Van Oaks wonder if anyone ever especially audited Mr. Garland's loose-handed administration of her medicines."
4
Lenient, permissive.
"First, it was traditionally subject to loose-handed regulation, which opened the possibility of returns above the cost of capital to offset."
5
Spendthrift, profligate.
"I was so eager to make their bedclothes agreeable and nice, I am afraid I was a bit loose-handed with the starch bottle."

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6
Aimless
"I'm a model convalescent if I'm waited on by anonymous people whose job it is, but very bad at sitting loose-handed about our own small rooms."
7
Wild or uncontrolled.
"In San Diego, at the zoo, this cousin's four-year-old son, left loose-handed by a gossipy mother, had been drawn between the bars and trampled on by a suddenly rogue elephant."
8
Involving wrist action.
"In which method of receiving the puck—with a fixed stick or a loose-handed stick—do you apply a bigger force to the puck?"
9
Sketchy and flowing rather than geometric and precise.
"In a search for the complex shifts of form in the foot's shaping, the drawings present a loose-handed version of planar slices."

Adverb

1
With a poor grip.
"If Daklan had drawn the sword from his flesh then there would be more blood than he could have stanched, but Daklan was now stumbling away, loose-handed, then falling."

Etymology 1

From loose + handed.

Etymology 2

From loose + handed.

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