• Surehanded

    Full definition of surehanded

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    surehanded

      • 2001, Nat Brandt, When Oberlin was King of the Gridiron: The Heisman Years, Both Fred Savage and Lou Hart, each ordinarily a surehanded player, dropped the ball twice.
      • 1924, Dickens and Thackeray, 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, 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, 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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