forehandedness
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Meanwhile, smiling Generalissimo Franco was exhibiting his other distinctive characteristics: caution, thoroughness, quick decision, forehandedness.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Let me felicitate you on your forehandedness," Harleston called from the next room.
From The Cab of the Sleeping Horse by John Reed Scott
"I was prepared for just such a request, a perfectly natural request," he answered Withers question, plainly approving of his own forehandedness.
From The Winning Clue by James Hay
One suspects that the Secretary may have been more complacently convinced of the forehandedness of the bureau chiefs than was his impatient associate.
From Theodore Roosevelt and His Times by Harold Howland
These were Eliza Marden and Peleg her husband, who worked from sun to sun, with scant reward save that of pride in their own forehandedness.
From Tiverton Tales by Alice Brown
