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Definition of open-handed in English: open-handedadjective 1(of a blow) delivered with the palm of the hand. （击打）用手掌的 an open-handed slap to the side of the face Example sentencesExamples - She punctuated her question with a sharp open-handed slap.
- It's an open-handed slap, but powered clear from the hips, and he absolutely staggers.
- Briant painted a picture of a meaningless post-pub altercation, an open-handed push, a momentary spat from which both parties walked away.
- If that fails, a strong, open-handed slap in the ear or mouth works pretty well.
2Giving freely; generous. 大方的；慷慨的 慷慨的善举。 Example sentencesExamples - And this open-handed warmth equally encompasses the friendly, obliging ship's crew.
- I love our open-handed freedom, our democracy, our maverick humour and unflustered sense of a fair go.
- Rich though he was, he had never been open-handed; but nothing was too fine for his wife, in the way of silks or gems or linen, or whatever else she fancied.
- Armed with this knowledge that the museum is such an open-handed lender, I intend to drop by sometime myself to see what's on offer.
- We have been pretty open-handed now in facilitating the development of Chinese technology even for military purposes.
- Instead, he has had to stage impromptu press conferences to cope with a growing unease about how he would honour all the promissory notes he has been issuing in open-handed Texas style.
- The Viswarupa Darshan of Lord Krishna is marvellously brought out in the open-handed use of hushed but powerful tones of red, yellow, black and white.
- It may already be too late to take the more open-handed British approach, and for reasons of self-preservation they may need to adopt an uncharacteristically guarded stance.
- You are very open-handed in your aim to help your fellow man.
- However, a participation rate of 100 percent is unrealistic, given that participation rates for even the most open-handed European programs are well below this maximum.
- The construction industry is one of the biggest and most open-handed lobbyists in Japan, and dozens of politicians rely on its money for their re-election funds.
- I would also like to thank Tim Barnett for his chairing, which was both fair and open-handed in its approach.
- After the Argentinian invasion of the Falklands, US assistance for its British ally was far from instant or open-handed.
- If, like me, you live and work in a big city, you may at first mistrust their open-handed friendliness.
- That seems appropriate for a man who was, by all accounts, as quirky, gentle, open-handed, and sweet-tempered as his music.
- Both these patriarchs fathered large families from a number of wives, both were intimately involved with the holy sanctuary of the Kaaba at Mecca and both were renowned for the open-handed generosity with which they cared for pilgrims.
- The King's open-handed attitude to royal display also partly accounts for the style of masque costumes because, although he did not perform in masques himself, lavish expenditure on his clothes set a precedent at court.
- The more of it they produce, the greater will be society's admiration for them and the more open-handed will be the attitude of policymakers and taxpayers regarding their compensation.
- The same open-handed policy applied to gooseberries which grew plentifully where I lived; but not to strawberries or plums, which were private property.
Synonyms generous, magnanimous, charitable, benevolent, beneficent, big-hearted, great-hearted, munificent, bountiful, liberal, handsome, princely altruistic, kind, kindly, philanthropic, chivalrous, noble, unselfish, selfless, self-sacrificing, generous to a fault, ungrudging, unstinting literary bounteous
Derivativesadverb To this, Jun open-handedly received it and quickly flipped through the pages it contained, skimming the details and the data regarding the Society's secret source of information. Example sentencesExamples - Slowly, the young angel marched closer towards the watching Stand, taking a knee about a foot away from the young boy while offering to him his trusted weapon open-handedly.
noun For here again, the emir / Federation president may see these expenditures as ways of forfending local opposition to Abu Dhabi's munificence toward the other emirates, and its open-handedness in foreign aid. Example sentencesExamples - Such open-handedness must have war and plunder to feed it.
- Winder's history of immigration charts an admirable course between the Scylla of racist little Britainism and the Charybdis of utopian open-handedness.
- Set my wife on the right path to open-handedness.
- His open-handedness harmed the economy: taxation (mostly in kind) rose inexorably despite the confiscation of the vast temple treasures.
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