glad-handed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of glad-hand
adj
Example Sentences
- "...his niggardly back-slapping coupled with an antediluvian crew-cut and a predilection for starched, razor-sharp creased shirts and spit-shined shoes only confirmed the prejudices of the glad-handed, button-down collared, slicked-back hair crowd-his benefactors, sponsors."
- "Since Thelonius's arrest, Keith had been doing the right thing, making regular and glad-handed visits to Lilette and the kids, and he could all too easily see himself developing an obligation there"
- "In wading through the mire of an era whose inmates have tired of supposed Enlightenment and loiter at the gates of the Dark, we should not be too glad-handed with the pearls of faith..."
Inflected Forms
more glad-handed (comparative)
most glad-handed (superlative)