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masterful vs masterly

masterful

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adjective

  1. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill

Examples

Masterful with machinery, he patented several mechanical inventions which had varying degrees of viability.

Her masterful brush strokes and use of colour fired up many critics and curators and received immediate recognition.

He blocked errant pitches in the dirt, expertly framed borderline tosses, turning them into strikes and worked masterfully with pitchers.

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masterly

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adjective

  1. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill

Examples

The scene where she finds succour in tinted glasses when her eyesight has been shot away is masterly.

The description of the cultural and physical coarsening which the circumstances evoke is masterly.

You get a sense of shared solitude, conveyed subtly but precisely, with masterly delicacy and without ostentatious ‘acting’.

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