unhandy
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
Perhaps there is something about Hardy that brings out an especially unhandy company.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 5, 2019
In an evening address in industrial Nashua, the crowd that heard Kefauver was much smaller than the one that Republican Bob Taft had drawn at the unhandy hour of 9:30 that same morning.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
Last week, from Los Angeles to Long Island, the unhandy were entrusting chores to a new and spreading U.S. service: the home-repair club.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
Memphis boasts an unhandy Handy Man named Peter Thomas who convulses viewers by spilling paste on his sponsor and gravy on his guests.
From Time Magazine Archive
![]()
Malcolm could see that the dinghy was an unhandy vessel, by no means as swift and easy through the water as La Belle Sauvage.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
![]()
I don't know no unhandier houses for gettin' out a corpse.
From Hocken and Hunken by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
He admitted as much when, afterwards referring to this meeting, he spoke of the Missouri Radicals as "the unhandiest fellows in the world to deal with in a discussion."
From The Abolitionists Together With Personal Memories Of The Struggle For Human Rights by Hume, John F. (John Ferguson)
Indeed, Michael Groder, though of a slight and wiry build, was the unhandiest man with his fingers that ever I had met with.
From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)