All 8 Uses of
deft
in
Ender's Game
- Deftly he propelled him down the aisle toward the other man.†
Chpt 4 *
- Holos of clean wars of the fleet, ships turning into puffs of light as the spacecraft killed each other deftly in the deep night.†
Chpt 5
- They played again, and this time Ender was deft enough to pull off a few maneuvers that the boy had obviously never seen before.†
Chpt 5
- She shoved off, spinning deliberately; with a few deft hand moves she steadied herself, and began aiming carefully at ball after ball.†
Chpt 7
- They had become quite deft at sifting accurate information out of the stories of the hopelessly ignorant, gullible news writers.†
Chpt 9
- Now that he'd got quite deft at maneuvering without one, here it was.†
Chpt 10
- She crawled onto the boat, not as deftly as Ender.†
Chpt 13
- Dink, who deftly carried out instructions but was slow to improvise; Bean, who couldn't control large groups of ships effectively but could use only a few like a scalpel, reacting beautifully to anything the computer threw at him; Alai, who was almost as good a strategist as Ender and could be entrusted to do well with half a fleet and only vague instructions.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(deft) quick and skillful