openhanded
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
adj
adj
adv
adv
verb
simple past and past participle of openhand
Example Sentences
- "In the painting, the enslaved and (as conjectured by historian Steven Weisenburger) sexually abused Margaret Garner betrays her liaison with her owner Archibald Gaines with an exposed, openhanded gesture toward him."
- "And when I did not answer, f-for my mouth was t-too dry for speech, he asked again, and I stammered out some nonsense, and then he struck me, openhanded, as though I was not a man."
- "In the economic realm, because of its temporary preponderance, the United States could afford to be openhanded."
- "Yet he understood nothing of real magnanimity; his charity was part of an openhanded recklessness, which made him fling the goods of fortune to the wind as soon as gained—part of the character of grand seigneur he aspired to assume."
- "Let selling be an openhanded selling, with justly balanced scales and price which do not prejudice either party, buyer or seller."
- "Arm-in-arm with religious liberals stand a legion of openhanded political liberals, humanists, and, of course, homosexuals themselves, all of whom passionately embrace homosexuality as a morally and constitutionally justified “alternative lifestyle.""
Inflected Forms
more openhanded (comparative)
most openhanded (superlative)