naked-handedly

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English

Etymology

From naked-handed +‎ -ly.

Adverb

naked-handedly (comparative more naked-handedly, superlative most naked-handedly)

  1. In a naked-handed manner.
    • 1930, Edward Cecil Ash, The practical dog book, page 62:
      Mr. Adcock, therefore, fought the dog naked-handedly, and in the great struggle that ensued continually threw the dog to prove that he was master!
    • 1907, Nathaniel Clark Fowler, How to Get and Keep a Job, page 225:
      I know that I am naked-handedly meeting the world's most worshiped god, — Conventionality, — the trouble-maker-in-chief, — who in his almighty sway has successfully prevented more than a zigzag stream of progress...

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