well-handled

[ wel-han-dld ]

adjective

1. managed, directed, or completed with efficiency:

   a well-handled political campaign.

2. treated with taste, discretion, etc.:

   a delicate but well-handled subject.

3. having been handled or used much:

   a sale of well-handled goods.

well-handled

adjective

1. having been managed successfully

   a well-handled merger

2. operated or employed skillfully

   a well-handled vehicle

Word History and Origins

Origin of well-handled¹

First recorded in 1470–80

Example Sentences

His integration into Parenthood has been so well handled, so seamless, that it feels as though he were made for the role.

From The Daily Beast

Say what you will about the politics of it—unwise, and not well-handled—it was the gutsy thing to do.

From The Daily Beast

Under ordinary conditions Nelson might have seen this, but he was well handled.

From Project Gutenberg

The Ouzel Galley was a stout ship, and, if well handled, might brave the fiercest hurricane.

From Project Gutenberg

A fishing-schooner, if well handled, is a veritable stormy petrel in riding out a blow.

From Project Gutenberg

The ship is well handled, certainly, and her people work like mariners who are trying to save the lives of mariners.

From Project Gutenberg

There is only a trifle, a paltry two thousand, if well handled.

From Project Gutenberg