surehanded

See also: sure-handed

English

Adjective

surehanded (comparative more surehanded, superlative most surehanded)

  1. Alternative form of sure-handed
    • 2001, Nat Brandt, When Oberlin was King of the Gridiron: The Heisman Years, →ISBN, page 79:
      Both Fred Savage and Lou Hart, each ordinarily a surehanded player, dropped the ball twice.
    • 1924, Dickens and Thackeray, page 11:
      The novitiate of Dickens is seen in the Sketches by Boz, and in many a casual piece; his increasing power in American Notes and in Pictures from Italy, and the fulness of his skill in The Uncommercial Traveller, where he is visibly a seasoned writer and surehanded, with all his virtues and faults in their permanent array.
    • 2011, Barry N. Malzberg, Revelations, →ISBN, page xxvii:
      Who would have guessed that after his explosion of insight, his surehanded and destructive manipulation of the woman, he would have begun with her a covert relationship?
    • 1996, Prouty, Variety and Daily Variety Television Reviews, 1993-1994, →ISBN, page xci:
      Michael O'Hara's surehanded script and Michael Horowitz's fine direction spell out the brief career of remorseless bloodletter Starkweather.

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