coarse-handed

comparative more coarse-handed · superlative most coarse-handed · alternative coarsehanded

1. Rough, lacking refinement or sophistication.

   A form of projection, he had been told by a psychiatrist at Holloman out in New Mexico, a coarse-handed woman who wore a flight suit and stuck pencils in her hair.

   2014, Mark Powell, The Sheltering: A Novel, →ISBN

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   But he had no prejudice against Englishmen, and even at a certain time when the coarse-handed British criticism began to blame his delicate art for the universal acceptance of his verse, and to try to sneer him into the rank of inferior poets, he was without rancor for the clumsy misliking that he felt.

   2015, William Dean Howells, Of Literature, →ISBN

   The splendors of the foliage, subdued by the rains, the grandeur of the peaks, the song of the glorious stream all were lost on Berrie, for she now felt herself to be nothing but a big, clumsy, coarse-handed tomboy.

   1914, Hamlin Garland, The Forester's Daughter