short-handed

As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

The clichés about football-obsessed husbands and frustrated wives are pretty heavy-handed.

The precision it took to craft such a cohesive, wholly compelling work over 12 years is nothing short of remarkable.

In short, fatherhood gets little attention in policy debates.

Some “hanging judges” have handed down hundreds of death sentences at a time.

Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.

Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.

He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.

They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.

"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.