Meaning of surehanded | Babel Free

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Adjective. [B2]

Examples

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

“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.”

“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?”

“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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