[
UK
/dˈɛftli/
]
[ US /ˈdɛftɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛftɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in a deft manner
Lois deftly removed her scarf -
with dexterity; in a dexterous manner
dextrously he untied the knots
How To Use deftly In A Sentence
- Minutes later Campbell scored again at the end of a deftly weighted bomb.
- The night I visited, a barback deftly chipped away at an angular, Braque-style ice block with a large spoon, taking about 90 seconds to shape something roughly the size of a baseball. Cold Fusion
- She had crossed this road before, deftly robbing Peter to slip a rubber cheque into Paul's back pocket.
- She deftly defeats those who dare challenge her with a relentless intensity.
- A kicking beat, guitars deftly playing off each other, and a bass line that was pure nous.
- Smith introduces these more sombre notes with real assurance, deftly counterpoising the impending death with the day-to-day concerns and anxieties.
- It is also deftly poised on the border between belief and unbelief.
- Both artists are skilled storytellers, able to use a few deftly chosen images to render snapshots of their own autobiographies.
- Plotz deftly neuters Graham's ridiculous eugenics, putting his noxious opinions in their historical context of the KKK and the rise of fascism in Europe in the 1930s.
- Neely's cartooning is light and breezy one panel (deftly evoking a cartoon-strip nostalgic past) and utterly terrifying the next, as the Blot and the unnamed character come to terms with one another. What Are You Reading? | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment