Meanings
adjectivedryhanded (comparative more dryhanded, superlative most dryhanded)
comparative more dryhanded · superlative most dryhanded
- alternativeAlternative form of dry-handed.
This sex blackmailer and dryhanded public virgin was lunching secretly each week with the East Coast spokesman for organized crime, Frank Costello, in N.Y. Central Park's Tavern on the Green (according to the Time magazine obituary).
1981, Geoffrey Rips, Anne Janowitz, Nancy Joyce Peters, The Campaign against the underground press, page 33
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