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Antonyms for hand-picked
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : hand-pik |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhændˈpɪk |
Definition of hand-picked
- As in choice : adj best, superior
- As in pick : verb choose, select
- It was an old-fashioned convention of the hand-picked variety.
- Extract from : « Theodore Roosevelt and His Times » by Harold Howland
- We hand-picked the directors, and put it up to you, strictly.
- Extract from : « Skylark Three » by Edward Elmer Smith
- They were hand-picked by their leader on the mount, face to face with God.
- Extract from : « The War Romance of the Salvation Army » by Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill
- I've hand-picked a good crew for you, and sent them on ahead.
- Extract from : « The Planet Savers » by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Hand-picked fruit in half-bushel peach baskets or in berry boxes usually brings from $1 to $2 per bushel.
- Extract from : « Manual of American Grape-Growing » by U. P. Hedrick
- The fragments thus produced must be hand-picked, and those which are not perfectly free from foreign matter should be rejected.
- Extract from : « The Methods of Glass Blowing and of Working Silica in the Oxy-Gas Flame » by W. A. Shenstone
- He had been hand-picked and thoroughly conditioned to take it all without more than a ten percent increase in his pulse rate.
- Extract from : « Shipwreck in the Sky » by Eando Binder
- The day after the meeting is the time for personal work, for hand-picked fruit, for heart-to-heart conversations.
- Extract from : « The Lumberjack Sky Pilot » by Thomas D. Whittles
- Tavia was not at all particular about that part of it—whether it was hand-picked or peddler-purchased, and she said so promptly.
- Extract from : « Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays » by Margaret Penrose
- We couldn't possibly buy trees last week, because—they would not be hand-picked.
- Extract from : « Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays » by Margaret Penrose
Synonyms for hand-picked
- 10
- 24-karat
- A-1
- cull
- decide upon
- elect
- elite
- excellent
- exceptional
- exclusive
- exquisite
- fine
- finger
- first-class
- fix upon
- go down the line
- hand-pick
- hand-picked
- mark
- name
- nice
- opt for
- optate
- pick and choose
- pick out
- popular
- precious
- prefer
- preferential
- preferred
- prime
- prize
- rare
- say so
- select
- separate
- settle on
- sift out
- single out
- slot
- solid gold
- sort out
- special
- tab
- tag
- take
- take it or leave it
- tap
- top-drawer
- uncommon
- unusual
- valuable
- winner
- winnow
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