ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Swifthanded

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Swifthanded is an adjective meaning Alternative form of swift-handed.

Meaning

Alternative form of swift-handed.

Example Sentences

Simple people imagined his swifthanded correctness of mustering, dispersing and moving his units only through a story about the "magic of shortening distance" found in a legend
His maid is the queerest little body you ever saw; Recca ("Dumpy" Recca he calls her), a little black-eyed loud-voiced swifthanded Fenella of a creature, hardly above 3 1/2 feet high, for she has a terrible crook in her back;
Bill Standifer's spreading reputation asa straight-shooting, swifthanded gunfighter sometimes was enough to defuse potentially violent confrontations, as in the summer of 1889 when IOA Ranch manager Rollie Burns came to the sheriff with a problem.
Meanwhile, in default of other and more useful occupation I was pressing on seriously with the production of this memoir, guided and inspired by Ruth's diaries, and supported by the ministrations of 'Hardie', our loyal, swifthanded, and unruffle-able secretary.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quickhanded, steadyhanded, surehanded, softhanded, defthanded, stronghanded.

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