naked-handedly

English

Etymology

naked-handed +‎ -ly

Adverb

naked-handedly (comparative more naked-handedly, superlative most naked-handedly)

1. In a naked-handed manner.
   • 1930, Edward Cecil Ash, The practical dog book, page 62:

     Mr. Adcock, therefore, fought the dog naked-handedly, and in the great struggle that ensued continually threw the dog to prove that he was master!

   • 1907, Nathaniel Clark Fowler, How to Get and Keep a Job, page 225:

     I know that I am naked-handedly meeting the world's most worshiped god, — Conventionality, — the trouble-maker-in-chief, — who in his almighty sway has successfully prevented more than a zigzag stream of progress...

See also

• bare-handedly