Definition of Sure-handed

1. Adjective. Proficient and confident in performance. "Promising playwrights...sure-handed enough to turn out top-drawer scripts"

Similar to: Skilled

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sure-handed

surcoats
surculation
surculi
surculose
surculus
surd
surdiny
surdities
surdity
surds
sure
sure-enough(a)
sure-fire
sure-footed
sure-footedness
sure-handed (current term)
sure as eggs
sure as eggs is eggs
sure as shooting
sure enough
sure of oneself
sure thing
sure things
sure up
sured
suredaite
surefire
surefooted
surefootedly
surefootedness

Literary usage of Sure-handed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"... for in general there is a noticeable exactitude in the motor processes it involves. Somnambulists ire apt to be sure-footed and sure-handed (cf. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... irresistible timeliness; and in every respect it is a characteristic work of its clearheaded and sure-handed author. ..."

3. The American Revolution by Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1905)
"With headlong, but sure-handed, energy of delineation he sketched out the broad lines of statesmanship, and filled them in with the special circumstances of ..."

4. The American Revolution by George Otto Trevelyan (1898)
"With headlong but sure-handed energy of delineation he sketched out the broad lines of statesmanship, and filled them in with the special circumstances of ..."

5. The Leisure Hour edited by William Haig Miller, James Macaulay, William Stevens (1894)
"Awkward as she appeared, however, Betty rarely broke anything— surefooted, sure-handed, sure-eyed, she very seldom made a false move. ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... poetic practice it was a polemic of irresistible timeliness; and in every respect it is a characteristic work of its clearheaded and sure-handed author. ..."

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