indextrous

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1. Not dextrous; maladroit.

   In their handshake we feel no understanding; we feel an indextrous hand that is not held to the equipment of our culture.

   2010, David Farrell Krell, David Wood, Exceedingly Nietzsche, page 66

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   He may think Memaw's consistent failure to strike him with the broom is a function of her indextrous skill with the broom used in this uncustomary manner.

   1998, Shannon Ravenel, Padgett Powell, New Stories from the South, page viii

   Charlie's inveterate clumsiness extends to indextrous misapplications of perfume, especially new ones whose atomizers she hasn't mastered.

   2008, Adam Davies, Mine All Mine

   Preoccupied in this moment with looking foolish or indextrous in public, Trump displays a deep sensitivity for decorum and order—the semblance of which allows him, in turn, to “grab 'em by the pussy.”

   2018, Yuliya Komska, Michelle Moyd, David Gramling, Linguistic Disobedience: Restoring Power to Civic Language, page 7

2. Not manual.

   No one better than he knew that an indextrous education is but half an education ; unless the hand have its delight as well as the brain, man expresses himself only in part.

   1913, Alden Sampson, Studies in Milton and Essay on Poetry, page 57