All 4 Uses of
adroit
in
Anna Karenina
- And the most experienced and adroit painter could not by mere mechanical facility paint anything if the lines of the subject were not revealed to him first.†
Part 5 *
- They kept a sharp lookout on the balls served to them, and without haste or getting in each other's way, they ran adroitly up to them, waited for the rebound, and neatly and accurately returned them over the net.†
Part 6
- He told her about the election, and Anna knew how by adroit questions to bring him to what gave him most pleasure—his own success.†
Part 6
- But he had selected quotations so adroitly that for people who had not read the book (and obviously scarcely anyone had read it) it seemed absolutely clear that the whole book was nothing but a medley of high-flown phrases, not even—as suggested by marks of interrogation—used appropriately, and that the author of the book was a person absolutely without knowledge of the subject.†
Part 8
Definition:
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(adroit) skillful in action or thought