Meaning

Dexterous; skilled and smooth at a manual task..

Definitions by Sense

1. Dexterous; skilled and smooth at a manual task.
2. Confident and skillful; practiced; expert.
3. Skillfully executed.

Example Sentences

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.

The Bucs committed a staggering 7 errors in the game, including 3 by the usually sure-handed Groat.

“My carriage is this way. My driver has not taken a blow to the skull, so he will be more sure-handed.”

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.

While Heaphy was in the role of hawk-eyed, sure-handed, specimen-procuring guide, Hochstetter, Haast and their colleagues were delighted by him and quick to sing his praises.

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.

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