surehanded
See also: sure-handed
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]surehanded (comparative more surehanded, superlative most surehanded)
- 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.