quickhanded
quickhanded is the alternative form of quick-handed.
Meaning of quick-handed
Adjective
quick-handed (comparative more quick-handed, superlative most quick-handed)
- Quick and dextrous.
- Ironically, the successful conviction on the part of Columbia's graduate students to preserve for posterity what I believe is perhaps the most thorough-going and most painlessly digested summary of economic-thought developments has never had Professor Mitchell's backing, and before his death...1956, William Ernest Kuhn, Textbooks on Economic Thought: An Analysis of Some of Their Shortcomings, page 2
- Done quickly and efficiently.
- I should like first to thank Cristina Gutierrez, of my office staff, for her tireless and quick-handed work transcribing the hundreds of tape-cassettes on which the various drafts of the present work have been dictated.1990, Steve Allen, Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality, page xvii
Forms of quickhanded
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more quickhanded |
| superlative | most quickhanded |
| Adverb | |
| comparative | more quickhanded |
| superlative | most quickhanded |
Questions about quickhanded
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- Quickhanded is the alternative form of quick-handed.
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