shorthandedly

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adverb

In a shorthanded manner.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

adverbshorthandedly (comparative more shorthandedly, superlative most shorthandedly)

comparative more shorthandedly · superlative most shorthandedly · alternative short-handedly

  1. In a shorthanded manner.

    Some form of self-steering on a cruising yacht, whether electronic or wind powered, is a necessity if a vessel is to cruise shorthandedly in comfort and safety.

    1980 Jul-Dec, Peter Watson, “Do-it-yourself Wind Vane Steering Gear”, in Cruising World, page 116
  2. Using shorthand or as a form of shorthand.

    These “privatized” rents are not directly controlled by the authoritarian state and they cannot be, in classic rentier-state logic, shorthandedly distributed according to political considerations.

    2013, Holger Albrecht, Raging Against the Machine: Political Opposition Under Authoritarianism in Egypt, →ISBN, page 26
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    Taking Gomery's well-argued point, it still seems that a new kind of publicity and new sets of social practices that can be shorthandedly described as "television" did replace the cinema as the central site of phantasmatic Americanness at this historical juncture.

    2000, Ronald M. Radano, Philip V. Bohlman, Music and the Racial Imagination, →ISBN, page 140

Origin

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APA

shorthandedly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shorthandedly

MLA

“shorthandedly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shorthandedly. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “shorthandedly,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/shorthandedly.

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