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Meanings of longhand in English

Portuguese
letra cursiva

Rapid handwriting in which letters are set down in full and are cursively connected within words without lifting the writing implement from the paper.

        letra cursiva

        Longhand.

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                Usage of longhand in English
                1
                My handwriting was better in those days and my longhand was readable.
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                2
                Like all the titles that followed, it was painstakingly written in longhand.
                The Guardian
                3
                If you want to get up and work in longhand, here's your chair.
                Misery
                4
                Mrs. F. showed us the remarkable books, all written in longhand.
                Ghosts
                5
                Dialectics is as fashionable as table manners and corresponding in longhand.
                The Irish Times
                6
                Some would dictate notes that we'd copy, longhand, in our notebooks.
                The Guardian
                7
                Morrow was back at her desk, rabidly scribbling something in longhand.
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                8
                It was a piece of Congressional-letterhead stationary, with the message scrawled in longhand.
                My Name is Legion
                9
                This was a JOPES, or in longhand, a joint operation and planning exercise.
                A knife edge
                10
                She prefers to write her first drafts in longhand, sitting on a sofa.
                The Guardian
                11
                The only words in longhand were the two forming the name of the secretary.
                The Price She Paid
                12
                She handed me the sheet of paper with the sentences written out in longhand.
                All the way
                13
                Sophie quickly found some paper and copied it down longhand.
                The Da Vinci Code
                14
                Declarations come in longhand and some come in shorthand varieties.
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                15
                Where the stories had been composed, where they had been written down in longhand.
                The sherlockian
                16
                Nick nodded and handed the two sheets of longhand over.
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                Translations for longhand
                Portuguese
                letra cursiva
                Longhand through the time
                Longhand across language varieties
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