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UK
/ɐdˈɛptnəs/
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NOUN
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skillful performance or ability without difficulty
he was famous for his facility as an archer
his quick adeptness was a product of good design
How To Use adeptness In A Sentence
- Where a family is noted for a special innovation or its adeptness at creating a certain craft, a family history follows. Mexican Folk Art from Oaxacan Artist Families by Arden Aibel and Anya Leah Rothstein
- Candidates might catch wind of public sentiment and begin campaigning on their maturity and adeptness at complex problem solving, rather than campaigning on untenable promises to handle difficult issues with oversimplified solutions. Edward Muzio: Never Another Budget Crisis: Two Fixes We Can Make Right Now
- In the debate over raising the government's debt ceiling, President Obama has seen his approval rating fall to a new low, his political adeptness questioned and his liberal base enraged over compromises he made on line-in-the-sand issues such as protecting Medicare from cuts. Political damage even if a debt deal is done
- Quiet, roomy cabin and adeptness overshadowed by cumbersome curb weight, soft suspenders, and a tacky dash.
- The system can not only fulfill jack group control, lifting synchronic control, ropes even loaded control but also strong adeptness in site construction and system reliability.
- The artistic adeptness and the uniqueness of the theme elevate the pictures to an international standard.
- This adeptness will make him a future power broker, something Colorado and her students will greatly benefit from. Kyle Daley: Michael Bennet for the U.S. Senate
- Ang Lee managed to move with extraordinary adeptness from straight Taiwanese projects (Eat Drink Man Woman most notably) to Jane Austen to the American Civil War.
- James Urquhart, in the Independent on Sunday, applauded Mankell's evocation of his diabetic detective's "quiet inner turmoil" and his "adeptness in weaving big ideas into seemingly local crimes". Critical eye: book reviews roundup
- As with enlarged leg musculature, larger tarsi may be linked to improved adeptness at locomotion for more effective foraging and predator evasion.