: having a palm of a specified kind
—used in combination
leather-palmed gloves
Examples of palmed in a Sentence
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Her fingers extend toward the camera in an open-palmed, defensive position, their tips trembling.
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New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
This was before the days when sweaty-palmed beat writers spent the final minutes in the press box furiously writing online recaps that publish as soon as the game ends.
—Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 1 Apr. 2020
For pennies to the pound, sweaty-palmed readers could indulge their paranoia in tales of the weird, the fantastic, the alien and the just plain disturbing.
—Neely Tucker, The Seattle Times, 10 Dec. 2017
New York Times, 15 Mar. 2022
This was before the days when sweaty-palmed beat writers spent the final minutes in the press box furiously writing online recaps that publish as soon as the game ends.
—Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 1 Apr. 2020
For pennies to the pound, sweaty-palmed readers could indulge their paranoia in tales of the weird, the fantastic, the alien and the just plain disturbing.
—Neely Tucker, The Seattle Times, 10 Dec. 2017
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“Palmed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/palmed. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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