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"ref": "2014, Agatha Kulaga, Erin Patinkin, Ovenly: Sweet & Salty Recipes from New York's Most Creative Bakery, →ISBN, page 43:",
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"ref": "1887, The Contributor: Representing the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations of the Latter-day Saints, Volume 8, page 168:",
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"text": "Indeed, she knew how to make young Deelbelicket, old Dougald Baresword, the Laird of Bandybrawl, and others, pay for the hospitality which she did not think proper to deny them, by rendering them useful in her negociations with the light-handed lads beyond the Cairn, who, finding their late object of plunder was allied to \"kend folks, and owned by them at kirk and market,\" became satisfied, on a moderate yearly composition, to desist from their depredations.",
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"text": "...are such as the cotton, woolen, and shoe factories, wherein the use of machinery has made mere human tenders of the operatives employed; or in such industries as the making of garments, wherein light-handed and comparatively unskilled labor, such as that of women and children, embodies the very worst features of an utterly selfish competition, and leaves the worker almost entirely at the mercy of \"sweaters\" and \"middle-men.\"",
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"ref": "1919, The Saturday Evening Post, volume 191, numbers 49-52, page 124:",
"text": "He must go lighthanded to whatever it was that impended.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"In a light-handed manner."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"enpr": "lītʹhăn'd(ĭ)d"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "lighthanded"
}
],
"word": "light-handed"
}
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