sure-footed

adjective

1. unlikely to fall, slip, or stumble

2. not likely to err or fail, as in judgment

Other Word Forms

• sure-footedly adverb
• sure-footedness noun

Example Sentences

Antonelli has taken a steady approach to the start of his career but had looked sure-footed and accomplished from the start of practice and carried that form into qualifying.

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“This work of art, in fact, is one of the signs of our own California Renaissance — a thing of sure-footed youthfulness, and of bright happy color.”

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Drawn in, Gluesenkamp Perez appears less than sure-footed, pausing and carefully choosing her words, as though verbally picking her way through a political minefield — which she is.

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Instead, viewers are flocking to less lucrative streaming services, leaving the parent companies of the networks less sure-footed.

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But able adults and sure-footed children regularly make their way through.

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