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Light-handed   /laɪt-hˈændəd/   Listen
adjective
Light-handed  adj.  
1.
(Naut.) Not having a full complement of men; as, a vessel light-handed.
2.
Having a metaphorically delicate touch. Antonym: heavy-handed. "the translation is... light-handed... and generally unobtrusive."





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"Light-handed" Quotes from Famous Books



... what he saw except through an art which is synthetic. With a more comprehensive conception of modern tendencies and a subtler descriptive vocabulary, Kendal might have divided his allegiance between Lucien and the magazines, and ended a light-handed fiction-maker of the more refined order of realists. As it was, he made his studies for his own pleasure, and if the people he met ministered to him further than they knew, nothing came of it more than that. What he liked best to achieve was an intimate knowledge ...
— A Daughter of To-Day • Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes)


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