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    open-handed example sentences

    open-handed


    1. He grabbed Andrastus by the arm, hauled him up, and began pummeling his face open-handed


    2. He went into a series of open-handed blocks, each a demonstration in economy of motion, each followed by what she imagined were joint locks


    3. The pauper then departed after offering heartfelt words of thanks and saying goodbye to the kindest, most open-handed man he had ever met during his life


    4. Shyness and chivalry; clemency and mercy; sympathy, tenderness and pity; knowledge; patience; wisdom; courage, intrepidity and bravery; generosity, open-handedness and liberality; justice, loftiness and continence; good management and fine conduct and direction of one’s affairs and such like: whichever of these qualities you mention, all of them were possessed by the brave commander and the bold hero, the veteran politician, the experienced leader, the judicious scholar, the wise master, the merciful clement man, the clear-eyed and discerning ruler


    5. It is well to give when asked, but it is better to give unasked, through understanding: and to the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving


    6. Friends, did this also never appear to you strange? Do you not remember that Cyril Horne was the most open-hearted fellow alive, one who could never keep a secret of his own? — open-hearted, open-handed as the day


    7. “He’ s open-handed, though,”


    8. They knew his open-handedness; and half an hour later the invalid doctor from Hamburg, who lived on the top floor, looked enviously out of the window at the merry party of healthy Russians assembled under the chestnut tree


    9. Rex seemed a rough, healthy, prosperous fellow whose name was already familiar to him from reading the political reports; he gambled in an open-handed but sensible manner; he seemed to keep reasonably good company; he had a future; Lady Marchmain disliked him


    10. Various motives urged Bulstrode to this open-handedness, but he did not himself inquire closely into all of them

    11. “And that’s my story,” Peggy said with an open-handed shrug, a comedian’s whatcha-gonna-do? gesture


    12. Rapp gave the man an open-handed slap to the face that was hard enough to knock him to the floor


    13. She was benevolent and at the same time solvent, public-spirited and privately an individualist, open-handed but with a delicate sense of doubly-entry bookkeeping, sentimental but not soft


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    Synonyms for "open-handed"

    excessive prodigal wasteful spendthrift generous improvident lavish