naked-handedly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From naked-handed + -ly.
Adverb
[edit]naked-handedly (comparative more naked-handedly, superlative most naked-handedly)
- 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...