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