gentlehanded

comparative more gentlehanded · superlative most gentlehanded

1. alternativeAlternative form of gentle-handed.

   “So,” he agreed, beguiled by her keen-eyed, gentlehanded exploration.

   2011, Patricia Gaffney, Sweet Everlasting, →ISBN

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   If a clever, kind, gentlehanded little girl could get a crumb of bread down their throats, it would do no harm; but all rough, violent, clumsy manipulation is as bad as the throat-tickling of the hard-fingered hangman.

   1853, Edmund Saul Dixon, J. J. Kerr, A Treatise on the History and Management of Ornamental and Domestic Poultry, page 70

   ...you went in but where you hurried every Sunday morning to scramble up on the huge bed, much bigger than your own bed, to bury yourself between Her softness and sweetsmellingness and His hardstubbled, gentlehanded roughness.

   1967, W. S. Kuniczak, The thousand hour day, page 530

   The emergency cars still answer all routine calls and one night a gentlehanded surgeon found himself helping to disarm a maniac with a shotgun.

   1970, United States Congress House Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare, and Related Agencies, Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations for 1971, page 652