Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a sure-footed manner; without stumbling.

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Examples

  • Mr. Raab sure-footedly turns his monolithic hatred for Mr. James and devotion to Cleveland into a vehicle for exploring his struggles with drugs and alcohol, the mental illness and abandonment that have haunted his family, questions of faith and Jewish identity and the joy of fatherhood.

    You Can't Go Home Again Nathaniel Friedman 2011

  • As she hurried toward the front door, walking as sure-footedly in dagger-heel leather pumps as if she were wearing Nikes, I headed down the alley to meet the porter halfway.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • He sat there, fighting his panic while Haunted House carried him sure-footedly round the Turn and over Valentine's and all the way to The Chair.

    The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

  • Then the pool calmed once more as the pack mare, bringing up the rear of our little group, stepped by sure-footedly.

    Virginity Sydney Kilgore 2010

  • As she hurried toward the front door, walking as sure-footedly in dagger-heel leather pumps as if she were wearing Nikes, I headed down the alley to meet the porter halfway.

    As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010

  • Any misstep might have resulted in reducing the horror of genocide to a prop in a morality-play, but Polanski sure-footedly avoids every trap and temptation in his path.

    Blog De Ganz | Archive | August 2004

  • Kicks and curses had taught him how to move swiftly and sure-footedly out of their range.

    Master of Pleasure Jordan, Penny 2006

  • He sat there, fighting his panic while Haunted House carried him sure-footedly round the Turn and over Valentine's and all the way to The Chair.

    Field Of Thirteen Francis, Dick 1998

  • Our revolution, with the stanch fighting will and self-effacing effort of our workers, coupled with the magnanimous help of Lenin's fatherland, has emerged victoriously from the trial of fire during these past 15 years of blockade, aggressions, and isolation initiated by imperialism, and at present it is moving forward sure-footedly through the fields of economic development molding the new generations and educating all our people in tile deepest solidary and internationalist spirit.

    CASTRO WFTU SPEECH CRITICIZES U.S. POLICIES 1974

  • Jellico was making the journey, sure-footedly, with the

    Voodoo Planet Andre Norton 1958

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