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light-handed

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light-hand·ed (lthndd)
adj.
Having a light, delicate touch.
light-handed·ly adv.
light-handed·ness n.
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Adj.1.light-handed - having a metaphorically delicate touch; "the translation is...light-handed...and generally unobtrusive"- New Yorker
delicate - exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly"


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But he's proposing his light-handed approach at a time when state government faces serious financial problems.
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Yumi Heo uses oil paints in washes on paper for a very light-handed, translucent effect, and the white spaces she leaves around and even inside each object make the pages seem very open and airy.
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This light-handed (and inexpensive) policy coincided with the massive nuclear weapon testing program in the northern Marshalls, which resulted in the irradiation of two atolls and the displacement of their populations.
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