lighthanded

I usually try to refrain from overmixing shortbreads or sandy cookies, but I think I might have been TOO lighthanded with these.

twice-baked shortbread + other lost recipes | smitten kitchen 2008

Heck, it's actually pretty lighthanded compared to "The Grand Inquisitor" in The Brothers Karamazov...

Frank Schaeffer 2005

Nay, what we had lighthanded left in surly the mere mould

The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo 1918

Though he prayed for a moose, just one moose, all game seemed to have deserted the land, and nightfall found the exhausted man crawling into camp, lighthanded, heavyhearted.

The Son of the Wolf Jack London 1896

Nay, what we had lighthanded left in surly the mere mould

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published Gerard Manley Hopkins 1866

McCreight's years of teaching experience and signature lighthanded touch are evident on every page.

MyLinkVault Newest Links 2009

At first merely fidgety, and managed with the greatest delicacy by the English postilion, then ill-tempered and capricious, swerving from side to side, necessitating in self-defence the use of the whip -- "But only gently and lighthanded, as one's obliged to do sometimes, just to show 'em who's master," was the poor fellow's explanation amid the bitter tears he shed when recounting the catastrophe -- when suddenly Tom reared and plunged, and set off at a mad gallop which no human hand could have had the power to arrest.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

"This is in recognition of the fact that we could not, on day one after taking political office, radically restructure the mayor's office in a non-participative and lighthanded manner.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

For thou and Richard the Red are naught lighthanded. "

The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865