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  • adjective superlative form of handy: most handy.

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Examples

  • The handiest was a fishin 'boat, bound home with the summer's cotch, an' crowded with men, women, an 'kids.

    Doctor Luke of the Labrador Norman Duncan 1893

  • Of the several ways to use graphite the handiest is a kit such as one from Redding that uses tiny ceramic balls about 0.050 inch in diameter in a plastic cup that looks like the film cans of days gone by.

    unknown title 2009

  • Of the several ways to use graphite the handiest is a kit such as one from Redding that uses tiny ceramic balls about 0.050 inch in diameter in a plastic cup that looks like the film cans of days gone by.

    unknown title 2009

  • One of the handiest was the eighteen months he’d spent as a sous chef for a restaurant in Arizona.

    Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010

  • One of the handiest was the eighteen months he’d spent as a sous chef for a restaurant in Arizona.

    Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010

  • One of the handiest was the eighteen months he’d spent as a sous chef for a restaurant in Arizona.

    Scarlet Nights Jude Deveraux 2010

  • "Mr. Ashurst says Jack is the 'handiest' boy he ever saw, Papa," put in

    Nine Little Goslings Susan Coolidge 1870

  • There are purpose-built voice devices that are said to be quite helpful, but I find that my laptop computer is handiest.

    Roger Ebert: 'I'm happy I don't look worse' 2011

  • This is not a socialistic view, if anything is it more like Adam Smith's invisible hand of capitalism at its handiest.

    Gary Stein: The Big Squeeze -- Unwitting Tenants Caught Between Defaulting Owners and the Banks Gary Stein 2010

  • This is not a socialistic view, if anything is it more like Adam Smith's invisible hand of capitalism at its handiest.

    Gary Stein: The Big Squeeze -- Unwitting Tenants Caught Between Defaulting Owners and the Banks Gary Stein 2010

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