hardhanded

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Forceful, excessive, draconian, or abusive.
    — 'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, vaſt / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.
  2. Working-class; having hands hardened from labor.
    — To deliver out of that Egyptian bondage to Wretchedness, and Ignorance, and Sin, the hardhanded millions, of whom this hardhanded, earnest witness, and writer, is here representative.

词形变化

more hardhanded comparative most hardhanded superlative hard-handed alternative hard handed alternative

词汇关系

反义词
lenient soft-handed leisured upper-class
衍生词
hardhandedly hardhandedness

词源

From hard + handed, from the firmness of a strike with the hand or the hardness of calluses on a laborer's hands.
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