hardhanded
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Working-class; having hands hardened from labor.
Example Sentences
- "'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, vaſt / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop."
- "To deliver out of that Egyptian bondage to Wretchedness, and Ignorance, and Sin, the hardhanded millions"
- "Martin Van Buren—plain, republican, hardhanded-democratic-locofoco Martin Van Buren—has [the East Room] now garnished with gold framed mirrors 'as big as a barn door,'"
- "He's a hard man, hardhanded, hard-hearted, he doesn't strike me."
- "To deliver out of that Egyptian bondage to Wretchedness, and Ignorance, and Sin, the hardhanded millions, of whom this hardhanded, earnest witness, and writer, is here representative."
- "One reason why Peter Quince and his actors make such a fine mess of the tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe is they are 'Hardhanded men that work in Athens here'."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
more hardhanded (comparative)
most hardhanded (superlative)
hard-handed (alternative)
hard handed (alternative)