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English
Etymology
un- + handy
Adjective
unhandy (comparative unhandier, superlative unhandiest)
- Of a person, or movement: not handy; inept; clumsy; not dexterous.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 177:Bradly collected Pippies; their trick vanishing was not too swift for his unhandy clutches.
1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 514:"Strike your father, eh?" Syed Omar launched an unhandy cuff, then another.
- Awkward; not convenient.
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