dead-handed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
4
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Mindless, plodding, or passive; stultifying
adj
Red-handed; having clear evidence of guilt.
adv
Red-handed, with clear evidence of guilt.
Example Sentences
- "No, it was stupid, dead-handed higher authority that made the army dead: absolutely fool-dead."
- "In contrast, Washington was like a cold bath on a January morning; we were quickly made aware of the dead-handed grasp of the bureaucracy, the unwillingness of all but a few top leaders to consider old problems in fresh terms"
- "There's a wash of noise I am somehow part of, dead-handed. The first song is pretty much over before I even realize we're playing."
- "Then simply hit a dead-handed chip, with the hands, wrists and arms all swinging together as if in a solid block."
- "My mother laughs from her grave, such are my sewing skills, but among these dead-handed men my wielding of a needle is nothing short of a miracle."
- "Charlie blushed as if he had been caught in the act of dead-handed idiocy."