The world, perhaps, never furnished a more adroit debater than John Forsyth.

His next attack was more adroit though roundabout, and it effected its purpose.

There had been few more adroit politicians, considered from his point of view.

You are more adroit with it than with the dagger.

He thought simply that for a clever woman she might have been more adroit.

Dick lifted his cap, silently thanking Providence that women were more adroit than men.

It was not one of my more adroit openers.

Of course, I shall be more adroit, more careless, when I really come to it.

Mr. Disraeli was the more adroit, the more witty, and the more brilliant in his thrusts.

Nothing could have been more adroit than the way he accused me in that concluding sentence.

She never could resist his personality, and soon became more adroit than he in juggling figures.

Her skill was immediately apparent, her fingers more adroit than most surgeons', let alone us uncoordinated zombies.

For there was no more adroit or experienced trial attorney in the courts than my little hook-nosed partner.

Probably the priest's tactics might have proved more adroit than the stony opposition on which Barneveld was resolved.

No flattery could be more adroit.

The ungrateful Leicester now expressed confidence that the second go-between would be more adroit than the first had proved.