lily-handed
📖 Definitions
adjective
1. Having delicate, pale hands, unaccustomed to manual labor.
2. Dandy; foppish; overly refined.
💬 Usage Examples
“[A] year roughing it in Australia on the sheep farms ... He was no longer the lily-handed young city executive who had flown from the city.” Kenneth Bulmer; The Insane City; Gollancz; 2013. “Presley remains an aesthete, a lily-handed poet, a tentative idealist.” Reuben J.
Ellis; “A Little Turn Through the Country”; Journal of American Culture (Bowling Green, Ohio); Fall 1994.