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well-handled
[ wel-han-dld ]
adjective
- managed, directed, or completed with efficiency:
a well-handled political campaign.
- treated with taste, discretion, etc.:
a delicate but well-handled subject.
- having been handled or used much:
a sale of well-handled goods.
well-handled
adjective
- having been managed successfully
a well-handled merger
- operated or employed skillfully
a well-handled vehicle
Word History and Origins
Origin of well-handled1
Example Sentences
His integration into Parenthood has been so well handled, so seamless, that it feels as though he were made for the role.
Say what you will about the politics of it—unwise, and not well-handled—it was the gutsy thing to do.
Under ordinary conditions Nelson might have seen this, but he was well handled.
The Ouzel Galley was a stout ship, and, if well handled, might brave the fiercest hurricane.
A fishing-schooner, if well handled, is a veritable stormy petrel in riding out a blow.
The ship is well handled, certainly, and her people work like mariners who are trying to save the lives of mariners.
There is only a trifle, a paltry two thousand, if well handled.
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