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Meaning of quick-handedness | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

The quality or state of being quick-handed.

uncountable

Examples

“This is an interesting trick, but I include it with some reluctance because it requires one very quick-handed juggler, and since quick-handedness and klutziness are not often associated, this might create a problem.”
“He is known to steal from the Treasury, but so far he has not been caught because of his quick-handedness.”
“It was a scene where Fagin was counting money on a table, very quickly sorting these coins into piles and slapping them down on the surface so that, as well as being a mesmerising piece of quick-handedness, the whole routine had this brilliant noise and rhythm to it — chik-chik-chik-chik, slap! chik-chik-chik-chik, slap! Superb.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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