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palsied

[ UK /pˈɔːlzid/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. affected with palsy or uncontrollable tremor
    palsied hands

How To Use palsied In A Sentence

  • Without the palsied hand of government, the unions would wither and die. 500 SEIU bully-boys vs. 1 14-year-old. | RedState
  • The guileless McKenzie is of course immune, as he blunders through a palsied old world.
  • It coursed up his spine and palsied his drawing hand.
  • It's a tough assignment, one that could serve as a test case for much-needed reform in South Korea's palsied industrial sector.
  • The thought made the old man panicky for the moment, and he stretched forth a palsied hand which wandered tremblingly over the small heap of dry wood beside him. THE LAW OF LIFE
  • John Paul's pain-racked, palsied old body is wheeled about on casters, his voice a shadow of its old, booming self.
  • As Helga considered the implications of Jake's aggressively styled hairdo and my middle sister's nubile young body traveling at speed behind the wheel of a moving automobile, her eyebrows did a kind of palsied tremor, eventually settling back into their resting place above her wrinkled gaze. Bootstraps
  • palsied hands
  • One of them suffered with rheumatism of the back, and walked about bent like an old man; another, who had been to the front, was palsied in the left arm; and a third kept open an ulcer on the leg, by rubbing in a little antimonial ointment, which I sold him at five dollars a box, and bought at fifty cents. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
  • The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers.
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