See also: deadhandedness

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dead-handed +‎ -ness

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dead-handedness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being dead-handed.
    • 1974, The New Law Journal - Volume 124, page 22:
      If that is not bureaucratic nonsense enough and smacking of that terrible dead-handedness that lurks in all our megalopic jugger- Departments, ...