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The littlest kid, the one who had been last out of the door, was the first to arrive at the correct wall, and he caught himself adroitly. (source)adroitly = skillfully
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...my mother is not a very "adroit" liar about things like that. (source)adroit = skillful
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"Adroit, McCourt. You have a mind for the priesthood, my boy, or politics." (source)
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By November, my father had mastered what he called an "adroit hobble," and when Buckley egged him on he would do a contorted skip that, as long as it made his son laugh, didn't make him think of how odd and desperate he might look to an outsider or to my mother. (source)
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No one wanted to risk sending in another MH-47 helicopter, since the Taliban seemed to have become very adroit at knocking them down. (source)adroit = skilled
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He had once referred to it as nonsense numerology and had said that anything could be proved that way, all that had to be done was to shift letters around adroitly so as to make the values come out any way you wanted. (source)adroitly = with skill
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Boats are female for Walter, as are busted car engines and broken lamps and radios — items of any kind that can be fiddled with by men adroit with gadgetry, and restored to a condition as good as new Why do I find this reassuring?† (source)adroit = skillful
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Adroitly Rogers slipped between the two women. (source)Adroitly = skillfully
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"une merveille," even "big" would do, almost anything but "sweet"—and perhaps it was only my glum silence after this which impelled her to begin to stroke and pump me with a zest that mingled the adroitness of a courtesan and a milkmaid.† (source)adroitness = quality or degree of skillstandard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Their entertaining myths transport the mind and spirit, not up to, but past them, into the yonder void; from which perspective the more heavily freighted theological dogmas then appear to have been only pedagogical lures: their function, to cart the unadroit intellect away from its concrete clutter of facts and events to a comparatively rarefied zone, where, as a final boon, all existence—whether heavenly, earthly, or infernal—may at last be seen transmuted into the semblance of a lightly passing, recurrent, mere childhood dream of bliss and fright.† (source)unadroit = not skillfulstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unadroit means not and reverses the meaning of adroit. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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When asked to clear a leash tangled around her feet, Essay would crouch and leap, avoiding in one adroit move the laborious process of stepping out of the loops.† (source)adroit = skillful
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It appears incredible to me that any kind of trick, however subtly conceived and however adroitly done, could have been played upon us under these conditions. (source)adroitly = skillfully
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Most people considered Lenehan a leech but, in spite of this reputation, his adroitness and eloquence had always prevented his friends from forming any general policy against him.† (source)adroitness = quality or degree of skill
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As adroit as he was at gathering a crowd around him, Joe was utterly unable to cast anyone out.† (source)adroit = skillful
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He drew his sword and showed it to her; a longsword adroitly shrunken to suit a boy of twelve, gleaming blue steel, castle-forged and double-edged, with a leather grip and a lion's-head pommel in gold.† (source)adroitly = skillfully
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He now turned his attention to Mrs. Vance, and in a flash Carrie saw again what she for some time had subconsciously missed in Hurstwood—the adroitness and flattery of which he was capable.† (source)adroitness = quality or degree of skill
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