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- adjective
superlative form ofhandy : mosthandy .
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Examples
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The handiest was a fishin 'boat, bound home with the summer's cotch, an' crowded with men, women, an 'kids.
Doctor Luke of the Labrador Norman Duncan 1893
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Of the several ways to use graphite the handiest is a kit such as one from Redding that uses tiny ceramic balls about 0.050 inch in diameter in a plastic cup that looks like the film cans of days gone by.
unknown title 2009
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Of the several ways to use graphite the handiest is a kit such as one from Redding that uses tiny ceramic balls about 0.050 inch in diameter in a plastic cup that looks like the film cans of days gone by.
unknown title 2009
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One of the handiest was the eighteen months he’d spent as a sous chef for a restaurant in Arizona.
Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010
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One of the handiest was the eighteen months he’d spent as a sous chef for a restaurant in Arizona.
Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010
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One of the handiest was the eighteen months he’d spent as a sous chef for a restaurant in Arizona.
Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010
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"Mr. Ashurst says Jack is the 'handiest' boy he ever saw, Papa," put in
Nine Little Goslings Susan Coolidge 1870
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There are purpose-built voice devices that are said to be quite helpful, but I find that my laptop computer is handiest.
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This is not a socialistic view, if anything is it more like Adam Smith's invisible hand of capitalism at its handiest.
Gary Stein: The Big Squeeze -- Unwitting Tenants Caught Between Defaulting Owners and the Banks Gary Stein 2010
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This is not a socialistic view, if anything is it more like Adam Smith's invisible hand of capitalism at its handiest.
Gary Stein: The Big Squeeze -- Unwitting Tenants Caught Between Defaulting Owners and the Banks Gary Stein 2010
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