(n.) Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally.
Example Sentences:
(1) In fact McCracken points to problems that others don't seem to, such as: Samsung may have barely mentioned Android at its Galaxy S4 launch event, but there's plenty of evidence of Google's handiwork in the S4, and at times, the handset's joint authorship results in competing features, overlapping functionality and a general sense of redundancy.
(2) Photos of my handiwork are out there in Facebook and Twitter-land, being shared, retweeted, liked and favoured.
(3) KH: Surveying his handiwork he reflected once again on the futility of existence and how long it had been since he’d had a decent bag of chips.
(4) Some of them made up to $15,000 per year from their handiwork.
(5) In damning email correspondence made public last week, Christie's aides and political appointees merely congratulated one another on their handiwork.
(6) The current drop is probably the handiwork of human beings."
(7) It was beautifully done, she said, by someone who would never have expected his handiwork to be visible.
(8) Most of the progressive tax rises to come in over the next couple years, says the IFS, are Labour's handiwork.
(9) Consider God’s handiwork: who can make straight, what He hath made crooked?” These words, from Ecclesiastes, pose a pertinent question.
(10) The near 900 shareholders at the meeting provided as good a sample as any of M&S's shoppers with Earl's handiwork getting mixed reports.
(11) The spreadsheet wizards duly looked upon Mr Darling's handiwork and pronounced it... adequate.
(12) A father and his young son, careful not to step on his handiwork, play catch nearby.
(13) When Naftali asked about them, Amir said they were the handiwork of his brother, Hagai, and bragged about his technical skills.
(14) Optimization of the activity of assistants, their skilled handiwork, and the skill in teaching and learning surgery in the interest of a sick person are dwelt on.
(15) The extraordinary vessels are the handiwork of early modern humans, who used stone tools to prepare and finish the containers around 14,700 years ago after the last ice age.
(16) According to the local paper, El Heraldo de Aragón , the damage inflicted on the mural in the church of the Santuario de la Misericordia is being investigated by experts, but the artist's descendants are said to be unhappy that an individual decided to take the restoration job into her own hands and fear her handiwork is irreversible.
(17) In that incident, the killers used machetes or other sharp instruments, their grotesque handiwork betraying the cruelty and ritualism of MS-13, or the Mara Salvatrucha, a neighbourhood street gang with its roots in El Salvador’s civil war of the 80s and 90s.
(18) Daly and the rest of us had to wait 22 years to hear and see his handiwork, however, because contractual disputes delayed release of the film – which won an Oscar.
(19) India’s defence minister, Arun Jaitley, said the incident was “the handiwork of a neighbouring nation”.
(20) Patrick Cockburn, author of a recent book on Isis, reports that a recent video claiming to show a beheading by the jihadist group was in fact not their handiwork at all: it was shot in Mexico, an execution by the Zetas.
Handwork
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) We conclude that the production of handworked ceramics could lead to an increased risk of lead absorption in children, particularly those who live with workers from this sector.
(2) "The advances we achieve through technology don't always make us competitive in manufacturing where handwork is a large part of the process.