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Unhandy

Unhandy \Un*hand"y\, a. Clumsy; awkward; as, an Unhandy man.

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unhandy

a. Not handy, unapt, clumsy, not dexterous.

Usage examples of "unhandy".

In the past, the British had counted heavily on the fact that Chinese war junks were unhandy in battle and easy to outmaneuver.

The patchwork engines of the deep-draught Merrimac made her as unhandy as if she had been water-logged, while the light-draught Monitor could not only play round her when close-to but maneuver all over the surrounding shallows as well.

Polygonus, who was unhandy with tools and therefore not progressing in his cross making.

Only for the sake of a symbol would anything so unhandy be undertaken by a reasonable person, and few had that sort of symbol to deal with.

Licinia called him in as senior consultant in financial matters, and the three senior Vestals spent many a cozy hour huddled together with him discussing business, investments, unhandy fathers when it came to profitably safe dowries.

Nothing is more unwieldy than our big blanket-sheets: they are awkward to handle, inconvenient to read, unhandy to bind and preserve.

Licinia called him in as senior consultant in financial matters, and the three senior Vestals spent many a cozy hour huddled together with him discussing business, investments, unhandy fathers when it came to profitably safe dowries.

There were nine droghers, slab-sided with apple-cheek bows, unhandy but able to carry a lot of cargo, and that was all.

But a bench was an unhandy thing with which to make a backhand stroke.

He was on the point of exclaiming 'Thank God Dryad ain't here,' -for even an unhandy butter-box of her size would upset the fairly even match and take all the glory away - when he realized that nothing could be more presumptuous or unlucky, and choking back even the enunciation of the thought he sprang out of his cot, singing 'The lily, the lily, a rose I lay, The bailey beareth the bell away,' in his powerful melodious bass.

In the dim, unhandy space between the tiles of the overhead and the base of the deck above, she followed the othersLieutenant Commander Frees, in this instanceand wished she knew more about Lieutenant Commander Bowry.

Hence the slow approach, dropping to sublight drive well outside the system, zigging and zagging (at high cost in fuel and time) to make unhandy checkpoints where defense satellites scrutinized their appearance and orders.