英和和英

語源

cack-handed +‎ -ly

副詞

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

1. In a cack-handed manner.
   • 2014, Gerard O'Donovan, Dublin Dead: A Novel, →ISBN, page 151:

     There was only one reason Siobhan could think of why anyone would do all of that, and try to cack-handedly cover up the fact by booking another flight to Bristol at the same time.

   • 2011, Aidan Chambers, Breaktime & Dance on My Grave, →ISBN, page 4:

     I had crewed for him once or twice, cack-handedly. He only took me out, I think, because for some reason he thought I was good for a laugh.

   • 1996, Thomas N. Corns & ‎David Loewenstein, The Emergence of Quaker Writing: Dissenting Literature in Seventeenth-Century England, →ISBN, page 107:

     Yet, though Charles II curiously concurred with Fox's view of Vane's character, the political point emerges rather cack-handedly: after all, Restoration magistrates took a very hard line with hatted Quakers appearing before them.