"swifthanded" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: more swifthanded [comparative], most swifthanded [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} swifthanded (comparative more swifthanded, superlative most swifthanded)
  1. Alternative form of swift-handed Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: swift-handed
    Sense id: en-swifthanded-en-adj-3ASpwExc Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1974, Viscount Arthur Hamilton Lee Lee, Alan Clark, A good innings: the private papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham, page 345:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1974, Women of Korea - Issues 61-72, page 19:",
          "text": "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",
          "type": "quote"
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          "ref": "1997, Thomas Carlyle, Clyde de L. Ryals, Jane Welsh Carlyle, The Collected Letters of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle: 1850:",
          "text": "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;",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Robert K. DeArment, Deadly Dozen: Twelve Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West - Volume 1, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1974, Viscount Arthur Hamilton Lee Lee, Alan Clark, A good innings: the private papers of Viscount Lee of Fareham, page 345:",
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