All 4 Uses of
deft
in
Arrowsmith
- Angus seemed appallingly at home, and he waltzed off with the prettiest girl, sliding, swinging, deft.†
Chpt 7 *
- Gosh, it's fierce I had to miss the select pleasures of an evening with Anxious Duer and associated highboys, and merely play a low game of poker—in which Father deftly removed the sum of six simolea, point ten, from the fore-gathered bums and yahoos.†
Chpt 7
- While this larger campaign thundered, there was proceeding in Nautilus a smaller and much defter campaign, to re-elect as mayor one Mr. Pugh, Pickerbaugh's loving chief.†
Chpt 23
- The Institute deftly provided all the material and facilities he could desire—animals, incubators, glassware, cultures, media—and he had a thoroughly trained technician—"garcon" they called him at the Institute.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(deft) quick and skillful