wide-handed
Collocations
4ADJ.
thick
VERB + WIDE-HANDED
long-handed, round-headed, scatters, seeds
WIDE-HANDED + NOUN
botticelli's, jack, nicklaus
PREP.
on
Definitions
adj
Having hands that are wide.
The two masters have fundamentally different ideals of the human form : Fra Filippo's figures are short and thick, round-headed, and wide-handed ; Botticelli's, on the contrary, are tall and slender, with long oval faces and narrow bony hands
But wide-handed, beef-shouldered Jack Nicklaus, present U.S. Open champ, commonly drives the ball 260 yards, sometimes tops 325.
Characterized by hands held open and splayed fingers.
It was a strange kind of clapping; a sort of wide-handed upward clap, compounded by the exaggerated nasal voice the hijras used in speech.
He gave Swainer a wide-handed wave.
Characterized by hands held away from the torso.
I like doing 100 by doing 40 normal, 30 wide-handed position, and then 30 in the close-handed position.
He gave a wide-handed gesture, puzzled as to why she was at his flat and picking up from the way she clenched her mouth so tightly that she was very tense.
Generous
His songwriting success brought Yvain to the notice of wide-handed theatre magnate Gustave Quinson, who had produced Henri Christin6's Phi-Phi three years earlier and, in spite of the fact that the composer had not a full score to his name, Quinson signed him up to write three musicals.
May God, through the wide-handed grace of His pity grant some kind of amnesty.
adv
In a wide-handed manner.
Not such are the beings that earth now breeds : No more the vast god nor the demon : her seeds Wide-handed she scatters, wide-handed feeds
Wide-handed he struck and with open palm on the portion of the bargee's anatomy which, in that position, presented the largest and, in all respects, the most convenient ...
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5The two masters have fundamentally different ideals of the human form : Fra Filippo's figures are short and thick, round-headed, and wide-handed ; Botticelli's, on the contrary, are tall and slender,
WiktionaryBut wide-handed, beef-shouldered Jack Nicklaus, present U.S. Open champ, commonly drives the ball 260 yards, sometimes tops 325.
WiktionaryMarie makes a distinction between the long-handed and the wide-handed forms.
WiktionaryNot such are the beings that earth now breeds : No more the vast god nor the demon : her seeds Wide-handed she scatters, wide-handed feeds
WiktionaryWide-handed he struck and with open palm on the portion of the bargee's anatomy which, in that position, presented the largest and, in all respects, the most convenient ...
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