level-handed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.38 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Even-handed; fair and balanced.
adv
Without a handicap.
Example Sentences
- "There is the opportunity for Apple to be level-handed and fair, and there is the chance for them not to be."
- "The scenes in which they confront Sister Helen are powerfully balanced--director Tim Robbins presents their passion and pain with a level-handed touch."
- "No painter qualifies more than Hogarth as a painter of 'social criticism', but none, at the same time, was more level-handed in his use of that criterion. . If the rich were called to order, the poor were certainly not sentimentalised."
- "There is practically no level-handed work at present, and therefore level-handed money is not paid."
- "The custom of level-handed work (two employees dividing the work and pay of one or more occupations evenly) has been increasing in practice since the bureau first made a study of this industry."
- "Another matter that is objected to in Mr. Campbell's statement and policy, is his allegation that the puddlers object to employing helpers, prefering^([sic]) level-handed men instead."