emptyhanded's Usage Examples:

The Devil returned emptyhanded, and his wife revealed to him the deaf old woman was his daughter in.

After much confused fighting, Haesten flees emptyhanded, as Sigefrid has recaptured Æthelflaed.

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"Miss Vermont doesn't leave Miss America emptyhanded" (PDF).

wife spends too much time packing her clothes, and so is forced to flee emptyhanded, leaving the child behind.

CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link) "Gator hunter emptyhanded so far".

jəddām 'one hand behind and one in front' (said when someone returns emptyhanded).

industry, with so few stags to shoot that many return to their countries emptyhanded.

Most who do end up emptyhanded.

But you shouldn’t go emptyhanded through the shadows past this point, but rather carry cakes of honeyed.

When he returns emptyhanded, Feng kills him.

all of the items already moved, the seven Phantom Troupe members leave emptyhanded in a hot air balloon, followed by hundreds of Mafia members to a canyon.