hardhanded

a. 手粗硬的, 手段强硬的, 强制的

词形变化

more hardhanded 比较级 most hardhanded 最高级

别名

hard handed hard-handed

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 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. 2.

    Working-class; having hands hardened from labor.

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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