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- adverb in a light-handed manner
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Examples
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Using a powder brush, tap powder very carefully and light-handedly onto the lips.
Best in Beauty Riku Campo 2010
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The Detroit News raves, "Nobody … can match his ability to serve up violence so light-handedly."
The Prisoner of Cool 2005
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The Detroit News raves, "Nobody … can match his ability to serve up violence so light-handedly."
The Prisoner of Cool 2005
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The Detroit News raves, "Nobody … can match his ability to serve up violence so light-handedly."
The Prisoner of Cool 2005
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Mrs. McComas was lively, energetic, determined to drive on; and her ability to assimilate rapidly and light-handedly her growing opulence made it seem by no means a mere vulgar external adornment.
On the Stairs Henry B. Fuller
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And here too his streak of ineradicable humor -- that bright plaything made out of knives that is so fine to juggle with light-handedly until the hand meets it in its descent a fraction of a second too soon -- came often and singularly to his aid.
Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920
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