forehandedness
Example Sentences
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Meanwhile, smiling Generalissimo Franco was exhibiting his other distinctive characteristics: caution, thoroughness, quick decision, forehandedness.
From Time Magazine Archive
There ain't anything specially lovable about forehandedness, when you come to that.
From The Village Watch-Tower by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
Any God's quantity of fuss and flubdub to bury a man, and not an ounce of forehandedness in the whole outfit to find out whether he was rightly dead.
From Traffics and Discoveries by Rudyard Kipling
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
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
