Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a light, delicate touch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having light hands; soft, delicate, or dexterous in touch or manipulation.
- Having or bringing little in the hands: as, to come home light-handed.
- Insufficiently supplied with hands or assistants, as a ship or a factory; short-handed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Naut.) Not having a full complement of men.
- adjective having a metaphorically delicate touch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective nautical Not having a full
complement of workers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having a metaphorically delicate touch
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Examples
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Though he prayed for a moose, just one moose, all game seemed to have deserted the land, and nightfall found the exhausted man crawling into camp, light-handed, heavy-hearted.
The White Silence 2010
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Even with Pigg's light-handed, Love, American Style direction, the production nonetheless does make us examine the things we do on autopilot, as we grind through our days.
James Scarborough: 7 at W. 70th, Little Fish Theatre James Scarborough 2010
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Though he prayed for a moose, just one moose, all game seemed to have deserted the land, and nightfall found the exhausted man crawling into camp, light-handed, heavy-hearted.
THE WHITE SILENCE 2010
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In a light-handed manner that contrasted with the influence he wielded, he was with us at nearly every step of our growth.
A Maecenas for the Internet Age Sam Sacks 2011
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Key elements of such a fusion include a sweeping overhaul of personal and corporate taxes, a light-handed approach to regulating companies that invest heavily in innovation, stronger constraints on Medicare and Medicaid spending, new investments in technical education to supply workers for advanced manufacturing, and the transformation of our archaic K-12 school system by choice and digital learning.
Will Marshall: Obama Needs New Growth Story Will Marshall 2011
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The problem, said Neil Carman, clean air program director for the Sierra Club in Texas, is the TCEQ's light-handed regulatory approach.
The Center for Public Integrity: Enviro Groups Prepare to Sue Nation's Largest Oil Refinery 2010
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Any moment now, we expect Rudy Giuliani, who outdid Romney by spending $59 million for just one delegate, to share some of his own financial wisdom, probably spicing it up with his usual light-handed touch of 9/11 doomsday.
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The Schoolhouse Restaurant in Cannondale, Connecticut is one of those sweet, bucolic little places that serves local, seasonal food prepared by its light-handed and talented chef/owner, Tim LaBant.
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Any moment now, we expect Rudy Giuliani, who outdid Romney by spending $59 million for just one delegate, to share some of his own financial wisdom, probably spicing it up with his usual light-handed touch of 9/11 doomsday.
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The Schoolhouse Restaurant in Cannondale, Connecticut is one of those sweet, bucolic little places that serves local, seasonal food prepared by its light-handed and talented chef/owner, Tim LaBant.
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