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Significados de dextrous em inglês

Skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands.

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The broad shoulders, strong arms, deft hands with their long nimble fingers.
The irish devil
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What caught Owen's eye were the deft touches in crowded penalty areas.
News.com.au
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He sets to sweeping, and is not very deft in the exercise.
Balzac
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It also was a deft ploy of blame-shifting, which exonerates his government.
News.com.au
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From Civil War hospital experience the father had been a deft bonesetter.
His Dog
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They were first-rate hunters, and dexterous in the management of the canoe.
Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountai...
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The other way Watson personalises the music is with those dexterous paws.
Radio NZ
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The princess was beautiful and spirited, dexterous and false, perfidious and seductive.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 03
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True, he's not nearly as lyrically dexterous as Kendrick Lamar or J.Cole.
Ebony
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And she does it all with a dexterous, lightly worn technical mastery.
The Guardian
Uso de dextrous em inglês
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Another dextrous movement of the gun sent it flying into the air.
The Red Acorn
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We'll see if she is equally dextrous in readopting her original identity.
NY Magazine
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Only by dextrous work could he save himself from being run down.
The Phantom of the River
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He was everything I wanted to be: daring and dextrous, fast and funny.
The Irish Times
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The Indians are dextrous in contrivances for that purpose, which we had not.
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Snip, pick, went the hands of the surgeons, slim and dextrous.
The Centauri Device
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Confess, Rodin was a more dextrous man than his late master!
The Wandering Jew — Volume 08
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The Moor was powerful in wielding his weapons and dextrous in managing his steed.
Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Anto...
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Far more dextrous was the conduct of the Austrian diplomatists.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
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But in a few days he had become amazingly dextrous.
Odd John
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Horse-stealing is one of their principal crimes, and at this they are very dextrous.
The Gipsies' Advocate / Or, Observations on the Origin, Characte...
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Her fingers skated with fast dextrous motions over the block's surface, sketching eccentric ideograms.
The Naked God
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The queen's dextrous management was employed to prolong these absences, and gather together accusations.
The Last Man
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About how dextrous the powerful are in shifting responsibility.
The Guardian
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Humans are expert tool users, who manipulate objects with dextrous hands and precise visual control.
Pubmed
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Thousands of dextrous volunteers will transform mountains of wool into a monumental map of the city.
The Irish Times
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