2 adjectives to describe handler

Good feeling helps society to make liars of most of us,not absolute liars, but such careless handlers of truth that its sharp corners get terribly rounded.

Should anyone in the twentieth century wish to see the old-fashioned prime negro at his best, let him take a Mississippi steamboat and watch the roustabouts at workthose chaffing and chattering, singing and swinging, lusty and willing freight handlers, whom a river captain plying out of New Orleans has called the noblest black men that God ever made.

2 adjectives to describe  handler