Both Uses of
deft
in
The Da Vinci Code
- According to Sophie, Langdon had been called to the Louvre tonight not as a symbologist but rather as a suspect and was currently the unwitting target of one of DCPJ's favorite interrogation methods—surveillance cachée—a deft deception in which the police calmly invited a suspect to a crime scene and interviewed him in hopes he would get nervous and mistakenly incriminate himself.†
Chpt 11-12
- If he moved quickly, this impending disaster could be deftly sidestepped.†
Chpt 43-44 *
Definition:
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(deft) quick and skillful