broken-handed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.29 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "If one of them is broken-handed or lame or dumb or blind or deaf—he is not declared a son stubborn and rebellious, as it is said 'Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him,' which is impossible if they be broken-handed;"
- "The priests are gone; the great bell is gone; the Buddhas and the Bodhisattvas have vanished, all save one—a broken-handed Jizo of stone, smiling with eyelids closed, under the moon."
- "The stunned and broken-handed killer struggled to turn, but the big American grabbed the mangled paw and twisted hard."
- "He paddled hard, doing a broken-handed breaststroke, kicking for his life despite the damage in his knees."