hard-handed
Example Sentences
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This is definitely the right way for the hard-handed Yorkshireman to play the spinner.
From The Guardian • Dec. 29, 2015
They were out for 60 only partly due to the moving ball; it was mainly due to their testosterone-fuelled, front-foot, hard-handed attack frenzy.
From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2015
Two balls after Rutherford's dismissal Ross Taylor was caught at slip from a delivery on that same horribly in-between length, shaping away just enough to induce a hard-handed prod.
From The Guardian • May 19, 2013
Still, Mao's hard-handed central planners have engineered some striking .gains in industry.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thome was as prickly as his name, a spare, sharp-featured man of fifty, hard-eyed and hard-handed, his black hair streaked with grey.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
