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Significados de dexterous em inglês

Skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands.

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Uso de dexterous em inglês
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They were first-rate hunters, and dexterous in the management of the canoe.
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The other way Watson personalises the music is with those dexterous paws.
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The princess was beautiful and spirited, dexterous and false, perfidious and seductive.
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True, he's not nearly as lyrically dexterous as Kendrick Lamar or J.Cole.
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And she does it all with a dexterous, lightly worn technical mastery.
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The address was drawn up by a very dexterous hand, a master-hand.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II
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But the latter, with a dexterous twist, slipped away from her touch.
The Red Seal
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They didn't look as dexterous as Krai feet, but they were close.
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He was a marvelously clever man, dexterous with hand and brain alike.
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See here, and with a dexterous jerk he caught the hermit's wallet.
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I really think my imitation of Dickens's style was dexterous and literary.
The Innocence of Father Brown
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Spencer Perceval was an able lawyer, a dexterous debater, a skilful Parliamentarian.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III
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He reached over and pulled the door lock with fat dexterous fingers.
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Even dexterous governments struggle to prop up house prices once confidence has gone.
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The Bedouins are particularly dexterous in pilfering; at night they sometimes assume the
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
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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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