coarse-handed

The splendors of the foliage, subdued by the rains, the grandeur of the peaks, the song of the glorious stream -- all were lost on Berrie, for she now felt herself to be nothing but a big, clumsy, coarse-handed tomboy.

The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range Hamlin Garland 1900

But to the toil-worn, coarse-handed mother I go on bended knees; nothing intellectual comes within the range of her ideas.

The Red Planet William John Locke 1896

Strong and substantially built, so framed that he looked taller than the limit of his inches, broad-chested, big-limbed, coarse-handed, Tom's figure differed essentially from that of the ordinary type, and as his figure so his style and mental capacity.

My Tropic Isle 1887

Ludwig was sacrilegiously thumbed by a coarse-handed sheriff.

Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887

The poor chemist, whose own life was full of misery, had been everything to him; but for Mr. Smales, he might now have been an ignorant, coarse-handed working man, if not worse.

The Unclassed George Gissing 1880

Englishmen, and even at a certain time when the coarse-handed British criticism began to blame his delicate art for the universal acceptance of his verse, and to try to sneer him into the rank of inferior poets, he was without rancor for the clumsy misliking that he felt.

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

Englishmen, and even at a certain time when the coarse-handed British criticism began to blame his delicate art for the universal acceptance of his verse, and to try to sneer him into the rank of inferior poets, he was without rancor for the clumsy misliking that he felt.

White Mr. Longfellow, the (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

The coarse-handed artisan's big face turned dark red with rage, and he did not go to his factory that day, lest he should pitch into some one; but he gave orders that

A Hungarian Nabob M��r J��kai 1864

Strong and substantially built, so framed that he looked taller than the limit of his inches, broad-chested, big-limbed, coarse-handed, Tom’s figure differed essentially from that of the ordinary type, and as his figure so his style and mental capacity.

My Tropic Isle 2003