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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 adroitness In A Sentence
- But this play, in which the action takes place in real time, displays not only his technical adroitness but his psychological understanding of the havoc created by the happily well-meaning. Absent Friends - review
- Apes have dexterous ( skillful, adroitness ) hands much like ours but unlike those of any other creature.
- It will take innovation, extensive knowledge of the public and private sectors, proven management experience, political adroitness, and steely determination to solve the major issues facing Chicagoans as we move into an uncertain future. Hermene Hartman: N'DIGO Endorses Rahm Emanuel for Mayor
- He dodges after the fat kid, who, with surprising adroitness, double-feints and legs it back into the bar.
- Whoever had infiltrated the system he and Granados had set up had done so with remarkable, even awe-inspiring adroitness. Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
- What they have got going for them is that our maladroitness politically and diplomatically has put us in a real bind.
- She was not without a certain kind of sprightliness that passed for intelligence; and she could by her adroitness of manoeuvre Autobiography of a female slave,
- a flame fed overmuch with experience, with sophistication, grown cold under the ministrations of adroitness, and lighted now by the "crudity" of John's love-making. Lady Baltimore
- The adroitness and patience of a long line of monarchs and royal ministers, who moved gradually but steadily to centralize both authority and power in their own hands, were crowned with unimaginable success.
- The two tropes are geology and archaeology integrated into an anecdotal, memorialising narrative form that demands admiration for its adroitness.