hardhandedly

adv

hardhandedly

adv

Etymology From hardhanded + -ly.

1

In a hardhanded manner; harshly and strictly.

His first stand-in parent is the sister who "brought [him] up by hand," hardhandedly flinging him like "a conjugal missile" and mauling him, physically and spiritually, at every turn.1999, Baruch Hochman, Ilja Wachs, Dickens: The Orphan Condition, page 169:

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