loose-handed

With open hand (as opposed to a fist).

His punches alternated between uppercuts and loose-handed swipes.

He was holding back, a little. The blows were loose-handed.

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?"

Varney made an impatient, down-sweeping, loose-handed gesture. "Quit it, Cole!" he said angrily.

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.

The rather loose-handed ways in which Wilson presented his history and the generalizations he dared to make are also visible in later years.

Lenient, permissive.

First, it was traditionally subject to loose-handed regulation, which opened the possibility of returns above the cost of capital to offset.

Why should Life be a cruel taskmaster, gaunt and grim, priggish and precise, and not the jolly, generous, loose-handed friend who winks at faults, overlooks lapses, and lets things run free in a happy-go-lucky kind of way, the margin not counting?

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.

From their hair styles to their clothing, from their ability to be patient (Cappy can, Leo can't), and from their banking practices (Cappy's a bit tightfisted, Leo a little loose-handed) to their speech (Cappy's is somewhat shy and gentle, Leo's is eloquent and dramatic), and from their method of reaching for the brass ring on the carousel (Cappy is watchful and carefully calculating, Leo is daring and impulsive), it sometimes seems as though they are from two different Universes.

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.

Exiting in the order of their deaths: Senhora Teixeira, holding her unlit torch loose-handed, helping Maria Elena up the stair.