handier; handiest
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: clever in using the hands especially in a variety of useful ways
handy with a hammer as well as with a paintbrush
handiness
noun
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Billboard’s Friday Music Guide serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
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Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2024
This handy sofa bed pulls out to create a much more comfortable sleeping space than an air mattress.
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These handy little devices have been a traveler's best friend since their debut.
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Stoick costume came in handy while filming in the thick of winter in Northern Ireland.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 22 Nov. 2024
This handy sofa bed pulls out to create a much more comfortable sleeping space than an air mattress.
—Claire Rutter, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
These handy little devices have been a traveler's best friend since their debut.
—Michael Stefanov, Travel + Leisure, 20 Nov. 2024
Stoick costume came in handy while filming in the thick of winter in Northern Ireland.
—Jordana Comiter, People.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Handy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/handy. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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