uphanded

With hands held up or characterised by raising of hands.

Adjective

With hands held up or characterised by raising of hands.
- For, as it regards myself, I confess, with humility, that in the earliest stage of my career I was the uphanded wonder of gossips even at my christening, and though only a few months old, (I was born in the longest...
- I can hold it up, I can hold it up and I feel everything drain right out of it, and if I go to pick up a cigarette now with this hand I can't pick it up if I hold this hand up in an uphanded position all the time. -...
- In like manner, the sketch of the angel in the study is done in a dreamy, prayerful profile; but the angel depicted in the finished drawing looks out to the processional viewers with an open, uphanded gesture, to...
Overbearing.
- Furthermore such an attitude becomes an abuse of the strong against the weak, exactly in the uphanded attitude adopted by Germany towards heroic Belgium, when she violated the latter's rights which were guaranteed by a...
- Mr. Wilkinson took a very uphanded means and said that he was going to be indisposed for probably 30 days. - 1953, United States Congress House Committee on Education and Labor, Strikes and Racketeering in the Kansas...
- The managers brought from abroad were not aware of the local agricultural conditions; they came into conflict with the workers because of their uphanded attitudes - 1970, Jerusalem Studies in Geography - Volumes 1-2,...

From up + handed.