open-handed
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The 20-year-old Diaz threw Lawler off his game in the opening minutes with an open-handed strike that came to be known as the Stockton Slap after Nate emulated it later.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2021
Its subtle, calming smell of English rose, Champagne, and peony manages to hint at spring, without giving an open-handed slap to my sinuses.
From Slate • Nov. 29, 2019
The army remained "open-handed to receive LRA defectors who abandon violence", he said.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2013
It doesn't help that the actors seem swallowed up by the big stage and make little use of the proximity of the groundlings beyond a strange, open-handed entreaty to the audience at the end.
From The Guardian • May 25, 2012
I would be valiant, open-handed, frank, and pure of heart, courteous — the soul of chivalry.
From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz
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