handiness

How To Use handiness In A Sentence

• It is due to the high overhead and the unhandiness of the previous fault-tolerance systems.
• By 1998, the publisher began producing mini books only because the public ‘just liked the handiness of a smaller phone book.’
• The instruction shall aim at providing he pupil with the general handiness which is of great importance to every man, especially to the manual laborer, and also with skill in some home industry (sloyd) most suitable to the general public of our land. UUpdates - All updates
• They become ‘unhandy’ and in this unhandiness they fail to serve the function that they had served so inconspicuously up to that point.
• He can do any sort of work requiring handiness and dexterity.
• Handiness with a needle and thread made her eldest child the obvious choice for such a task.
• One was a singular "handiness" about doing anything and everything, from laying out a railroad or organizing a political party, down to sewing on buttons, shoeing a horse, or setting a broken leg, or a hen. Roughing It
• Calluna, the flowering shrub also known as heather, seems to have been appreciated not so much for its beauty as its handiness as a broom. From the Teeth of the Lion to the Dandelion
• An attempt to increase the magnifying power would inevitably lead to a reduction of the field of vision and to an unhandiness of such spectacles.
• From his Indian half he had his love of tramping which made him choose the wandering trade of trunk pedler; his French half made him a good trader and talker; while his Yankee half endowed him with a universal Yankee trait, a "handiness," which showed in scores of gifts and accomplishments and knacks that made him as warmly greeted everywhere as were his attractive trunks. Home Life in Colonial Days