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soft-handed
a. gentle, insufficient, permissive, nurturing, lenient alt. gentle, insufficient, permissive, nurturing, lenient
Usage examples of "soft-handed".
It occurred to me that this last suggestion of the Landlady was worth considering by the soft-handed, broadcloth-clad spouters to the laboring classes,--so called in distinction from the idle people who only contrive the machinery and discover the processes and lay out the work and draw the charts and organize the various movements which keep the world going and make it tolerable.