lighthandedly

Updated: June 4, 2025

There's my mother at the window; will you come in for a moment? With a step of quite unusual sprightliness Mr Yule entered the house. He could talk of but one subject, and Mrs Milvain had to listen to a laboured account of the blunder just committed by The Study. It was Alfred's Yule's characteristic that he could do nothing lighthandedly.

George Gissing - New Grub Street