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Meanings of dexterity in English
Synonyms
Examples for "adroitness"
Examples for "adroitness"
1
The door was locked with the same adroitness and the same silence.
2
Then with the adroitness of a skilled surgeon, she made the examination.
3
Plenty of contemporary accounts admired his adroitness, sureness, strength, fluency and tone.
4
It had a rare political adroitness, but it had little intellectual subtlety.
5
Her wonderful social instincts, her memory, her adroitness, had somehow failed her.
1
No, I did not say my deftness- Igotthat in another way.
2
But the head was jerked away with a motion of catlike deftness.
3
The deftness of her fingers filled him with an unfamiliar, half-inquisitive wonder.
4
But Adam had a deftness with his barbs that his opponent lacked.
5
Mori docked the Launch at the Servant's Entrance with his customary deftness.
1
The manual skill of a policeman is useless outside the police force.
2
As a rule such work requires only a small amount of manual skill or deftness.
3
The successful operations for converting steel into various kinds of instruments, depends very much upon manual skill.
4
We adorn the victim with manual skill, his tongue with languages, his body with inoffensive and comely manners.
5
Both push manual skill to the limit; both mature with practice; both depend on immediacy, precision and opposable thumbs.
1
It is significantly correlated with strength, quality of movement, and manual ability.
2
Gifted with uncommon manual ability, Ned Land was a Canadian who had no equal in his dangerous trade.
3
Pinch and grip strength were measured with a dynamometer, quality of upper limb movement by the Melbourne Assessment 2 and manual ability by the ABILHAND-kids.
Usage of dexterity in English
1
The work in hand called for the dexterity of the true artist.
2
Secondary outcome was change in manual dexterity using the coin rotation task.
3
Results: The robot provided an ergonomic surgical environment and remarkable dexterity enhancement.
4
Your skill revives invalids; your dexterity animates them; your sensibility consoles them.
5
Dechen's shyness belies her great dexterity as she sets about her task.
6
Earlier training in piano playing had given her a certain manual dexterity.
7
In the tempest, Alexius steered the Imperial vessel with dexterity and courage.
8
By a happy, unperplexed dexterity, Winckelmann solves the question in the concrete.
9
The mason-work of the doors was executed with great care and dexterity.
10
They watched Alma stop trying to walk or practice her dexterity skills.
11
Focusing on small, dexterity-associated tasks, on the other hand, may promote seasickness.
12
Sometimes this thought-quickness and happy dexterity had to be used in self-defence.
13
The dexterity with which he recapitulated these details produced the desired effect.
14
This dexterity with the staff carried no warning to the enraged officer.
15
Thou hast not the skill and dexterity of settling and composing differences.
16
Jennings congratulated himself on his dexterity in securing this piece of evidence.
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Dexterity through the time
Dexterity across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common