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Meanings of dexterous in English

Skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands.

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Examples for "deft"
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The broad shoulders, strong arms, deft hands with their long nimble fingers.
The irish devil
2
What caught Owen's eye were the deft touches in crowded penalty areas.
News.com.au
3
He sets to sweeping, and is not very deft in the exercise.
Balzac
4
It also was a deft ploy of blame-shifting, which exonerates his government.
News.com.au
5
From Civil War hospital experience the father had been a deft bonesetter.
His Dog
1
Another dextrous movement of the gun sent it flying into the air.
The Red Acorn
2
We'll see if she is equally dextrous in readopting her original identity.
NY Magazine
3
Only by dextrous work could he save himself from being run down.
The Phantom of the River
4
He was everything I wanted to be: daring and dextrous, fast and funny.
The Irish Times
5
The Indians are dextrous in contrivances for that purpose, which we had not.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Usage of dexterous in English
1
They were first-rate hunters, and dexterous in the management of the canoe.
Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountai...
2
The other way Watson personalises the music is with those dexterous paws.
Radio NZ
3
The princess was beautiful and spirited, dexterous and false, perfidious and seductive.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 03
4
True, he's not nearly as lyrically dexterous as Kendrick Lamar or J.Cole.
Ebony
5
And she does it all with a dexterous, lightly worn technical mastery.
The Guardian
6
The address was drawn up by a very dexterous hand, a master-hand.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II
7
But the latter, with a dexterous twist, slipped away from her touch.
The Red Seal
8
They didn't look as dexterous as Krai feet, but they were close.
The truth of valor
9
He was a marvelously clever man, dexterous with hand and brain alike.
The Lord of Death and the Queen of Life
10
See here, and with a dexterous jerk he caught the hermit's wallet.
The Gathering of Brother Hilarius
11
I really think my imitation of Dickens's style was dexterous and literary.
The Innocence of Father Brown
12
Spencer Perceval was an able lawyer, a dexterous debater, a skilful Parliamentarian.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III
13
He reached over and pulled the door lock with fat dexterous fingers.
Quantico
14
Even dexterous governments struggle to prop up house prices once confidence has gone.
Reuters
15
The Bedouins are particularly dexterous in pilfering; at night they sometimes assume the
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
16
The women of Eap are wonderfully dexterous in their use of this process.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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