sure-handed
Collocations
3ADJ.
smooth
SURE-HANDED + NOUN
groat, infielder, reds
ADV.
rarely, usually
Definitions
adj
Dexterous; skilled and smooth at a manual task.
It was so cold that the ball clanked off the glove of the usually sure-handed Reds infielder for an error.
These guys are sure-handed and smooth, rarely dropping the ball on the field, but routinely doing so off it.
Confident and skillful; practiced; expert.
And till we can recover that, we shall never be able to have a Government firm-seated and sure-handed.
All managers having profit responsibility should have a sure-handed analytical grip on how changes in sales volume and sales prices impact their profit performance.
Skillfully executed.
Neither his sure-handed scoring, however, almost too sure-handed for a young man of twenty-five who is going to be a real composer, nor the diffuse and improvisatory character of the composition inspires the confidence in Mr. Bernstein's original gifts that this reviewer entertains towards his genius as an executant and an interpreter.
And the first days of it, he was going to give to bookshelves and pictures — those watercolors by Larry Johns he'd bought last year, nice, loose, sure-handed sketches of the surf, rocks, dunes around the handsome beach house Johns shared with Tom Owens.
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3It was so cold that the ball clanked off the glove of the usually sure-handed Reds infielder for an error.
WiktionaryThese guys are sure-handed and smooth, rarely dropping the ball on the field, but routinely doing so off it.
WiktionaryThe Bucs committed a staggering 7 errors in the game, including 3 by the usually sure-handed Groat.
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