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Sure-handed

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    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."

  3. 3
    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."

Adjective
  1. 1
    proficient and confident in performance wordnet

Etymology

From sure + handed.

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