sure-handed

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sure-handed

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From sure + handed.

adjective surehanded

Dexterous; skilled and smooth at a manual task. It was so cold that the ball clanked off the glove of the usually sure-handed Reds infielder for an error.
Confident and skillful; practiced; expert. And till we can recover that, we shall never be able to have a Government firm-seated and sure-handed.
Skillfully executed. Neither his sure-handed scoring, however, almost too sure-handed for a young man of twenty-five who is going to be a real composer, nor the diffuse and improvisatory character of the composition inspires the confidence in Mr. Bernstein's original gifts that this reviewer entertains towards his geniu

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@misc{sure_handed_2026,
  title = {sure-handed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sure-handed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}