surehanded

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1. alternativeAlternative form of sure-handed.

   Both Fred Savage and Lou Hart, each ordinarily a surehanded player, dropped the ball twice.

   2001, Nat Brandt, When Oberlin was King of the Gridiron: The Heisman Years, →ISBN, page 79

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   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.

   1924, Dickens and Thackeray, page 11

   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?

   2011, Barry N. Malzberg, Revelations, →ISBN, page xxvii

   Michael O'Hara's surehanded script and Michael Horowitz's fine direction spell out the brief career of remorseless bloodletter Starkweather.

   1996, Prouty, Variety and Daily Variety Television Reviews, 1993-1994, →ISBN, page xci