sure-footed

ADJECTIVE
  1. not liable to error in judgment or action
    most surefooted of the statesmen who dealt with the depression
    demonstrates a surefooted storytelling talent
  2. not liable to stumble or fall
    on surefooted donkeys
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How To Use sure-footed In A Sentence

  • Once sure-footed, their step is now a confused, uncertain stagger, like a drunk slaloming from house to house in searching for his own front door.
  • I will shine the lantern along your path so you feel confident and sure-footed with each step you take.
  • He is less sure-footed on purely intellectual virtue. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Following England's World Cup debacle, the site became part of a wider charge sheet that suggested Capello had lost the sure-footedness that guided the team to qualification, amid questions about his decision to renege on an earlier promise not to pick injured players, to take those in form to South Africa and his aloof style. Capello Index risks clash with Premier League as fiasco escalates
  • But as a gun for hire in Hollywood he seems less sure-footed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The horse Lady Ashburton sent him is a pretty, swift little creature, and very sure-footed, which is the first quality for a horse whose rider always goes at a gallop. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Put just a little pressure on your edges and your skis feel as sure-footed as the wheels of a train. Times, Sunday Times
  • The sure-footed animal was easily kept and many a child owed its life to the milk of the humble goat.
  • The Z-Traxion z-shaped lugs promote superior weight distribution and sure-footed traction and stability.
  • The footpath surface, rather the lack of it, can hamper even the most sure-footed of the city's pedestrians.
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