• lighthanded
• lighthandedly
• lighthandedness

lighthanded (suomeksi)

Määritelmät:

• (alt form, light-handed, lang=en)
• benign and with minimal intervention.
• * (quote-book, title=Competition and the Regulation of Utilities, author=Michael A. Crew, year=2012, page=81, ISBN=1461540488, passage=FERC then drew on a potentially significant dictum from ''Farmers Union II'': "Moving from heavy to '''lighthanded''' regulation within the boundaries of an unchanged statute can ... be justified by a showing that under current circumstances the goal and purposes of the statute will be accomplished through substantially less regulatory oversight.")
• * (quote-book, title=Trends, author=U.S. National Conference on State Parks, year=1997, page=33, passage=On the other hand, '''lighthanded''' methods are believed to have more subtle effects on behaviors, often through influencing attitudes, creating knowledge, or manipulating the environment to accomplish desirable ends.)
• * (quote-book, title=Energy Conservation Within the Federal Government: The Department of Energy's Role. Hearings, author=United States Congress House Committee on Government Operations. Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee, year=1979, page=104, passage=Does it reflect your position toward the other agencies that, in the words of your Deputy, this program should be as '''lighthanded''' as possible?)
• sparing, Sparing.
• * (quote-book, title=Quiltmaking Essentials I: Cutting and Piecing Skills, author=Donna Lynn Thomas, year=2014, ISBN=1604684410, passage=When sewing strip sets, use a '''lighthanded''' approach feeding the strips under the presser foot so the crosswise grain isn't stretched.)
• * (quote-book, title=Intermission: Volume 1, author=Marc Twine, year=2014, passage=When it came to food, Melissa preferred subtle nuance and '''lighthanded''' seasoning.)
• nimble and dextrous;
• * (quote-book, title=Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands, author=Robert I. Levy, year=1975, page=44, ISBN=0226476073, passage=From all evidence he manages the subtle responsibilities of the tdvana role with a delicate and '''lighthanded''' virtuosity.)
• * (quote-book, title=A Catalogue of the National Gallery of British Art at South Kensington, author=Richard Redgrave, year=1893, page=19, passage=The early works of this painter are a complete study for '''lighthanded''' and beautiful execution; they look imitatively perfect, yet many instances are known of his extreme rapidity of execution.)
• * (quote-book, title=Four Meetings, author=(w, Henry James), year=1877, passage=Winterbourne constantly attended for news from the sick-room, which reached him, however, but with worrying indirectness, though he once had speech, for a moment, of the poor girl's physician and once saw Mrs Miller, who, sharply alarmed, struck him as thereby more happily inspired than he could have conceived and indeed as the most noiseless and '''lighthanded''' of nurses.)
• light-hearted, Light-hearted.
• * (quote-book, title=Spinoza's Modernity: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Heine, author=Willi Goetschel, year=2004, page=268, ISBN=0299190838, passage=In recovering the pointedly Spinozist impulse, the deeper critical motivation behind Heine's seemingly lighthanded poetic playfulness comes to the fore.)
• * (quote-book, title=The Hidden Face: A Study of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, author=Ida Friederike Görres, year=2003, page=112, ISBN=089870927X, passage=Gaiety and an overflowing, outpouring love, warmth and clarity, a '''lighthanded''' ease, replaced the tormented tension of the will which had marked the outgrown stage.)
• * (quote-book, title=Selling Used Books Online, author=Stephen Windwalker, year=2002, page=62, ISBN=0971577838, passage=If you live and work in a small town atmosphere and can find acceptable ways to make yourself and your enterprise known in a '''lighthanded''' way to either or both groups in your town, you may find that some day down the road one of them will mention you to a family member who has just offhandedly mentioned the need to get rid of a collection of books.)
• flippant.
• (lb, en, nautical, or, military) Not having a full complement of workers.
• * (quote-book, title=The Contributor: Representing the Young Men's and Young Ladies' Mutual Improvement Associations of the Latter-day Saints, Volume 8, year=1887, page=168, passage=Being so '''lighthanded''' the vessel could not be properly managed and could carry but little sail, consequently her progress was but slow.)
• * (quote-book, title=The Water Witch, author=James Fenimore Cooper, year=1836, passage=“We will hold on to the last, while he must begin to take in soon, or the squall will come upon him too fast for a '''light-handed''' vessel.”)
• thieving, Thieving.
• * (quote-journal, work=Cruising World, month=January, year=1997, title=Choosing A Dinghy -- The Hard Way, author=Time Carr, passage=Captive rowlocks keep the oars in the boat while you 're rowing and discourage '''lighthanded''' hardware seekers when you go ashore.)
• * (quote-book, title=In Jeopardy, author=Van Tassel Sutphen, year=1922, ISBN=1465519297, passage=You understand what darkies are—as curious as magpies and quite as '''lighthanded'''. If one of them had chanced to see Effingham hiding something behind the clock, he would be sure to investigate for himself at the first convenient opportunity.)
• * (quote-book, title=The Pirate, author=(w, Sir Walter Scott), year=1831, passage=Indeed she knew how to make young Deelbelicket, old Dougald Baresword, the Laird of Bandybrawl, and others, pay for the hospitality which she did not think proper to deny them, by rendering them useful in her negotiations with the '''lighthanded''' lads beyond the Cairn, who, finding their late object of plunder was allied to "end folks, and owned by them at kirk and market," became satisfied, on a moderate yearly composition, to desist from their depredations.)
• (alt form, light-handed, lang=en)
• Carrying very little.
• * (quote-book, title=The Son of the Wolf, author=Jack London, year=2013, ISBN=1627936629, passage=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.)
• * (quote-book, title=Daybreak in Korea: A Tale of Transformation in the Far East, author=Annie Laurie Adams Baird, year=1909, page=113, passage=The trip was to be a short one this time, and he was going '''lighthanded''', leaving behind him the necessities of life as represented by American articles of diet.)
• * (quote-book, title=Old Mackinaw, or, The fortress of the Lakes and its surroundings, author=William Peter Strickland, year=1860, page=351, passage=The true state of the case is, that manufactures, as a general thing, in view of the depressed condition of the trade, have been making calculations to do a light business, and got out their logs sooner than they expected, and will on the whole do rather more than they had anticipated, having gone into the woods '''lighthanded'''.)
• In a light-handed manner.
• * (quote-book, title=The Saturday Evening Post - Volume 191, Issues 49-52, author=, year=1919, page=124, ISBN=, passage=He must go '''lighthanded''' to whatever it was that impended.)
• * (quote-book, title=The Golden Echo, author=(w, Gerard Manley Hopkins), year=1918, passage=See: not a hair is, not an eyelash, not the least lash lost; every hair Is, hair of the head, numbered. Nay, what we had '''lighthanded''' left in surly the mere mould Will have waked and have waxed and have walked in the wind what while we slept.)