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She painted with deft, swift touches.deft = quick and skillful
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Deft fingers massaged her face.deft = skillful
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She chopped the vegetables with deft, sure movements.deft = quick & skillful
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I watch his feet move to the center of the room, and his hands, steady as they accept the knife from Marcus, are deft as one presses the knife into the other. (source)deft = quick and skillful
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Now that he'd got quite deft at maneuvering without one, here it was. (source)
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So deft was his touch that the oranges seemed to move of their own accord. (source)
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This one had a switch, which the man deftly snapped to the end that said OFF. (source)deftly = quickly and skillfully
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The services of children blinded in this way fetched high sums; their touch was so suave and deft, it was said, that under their fingers you could feel the flowers blossoming and the water flowing out of your own skin. (source)deft = skillful
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She performs these tasks with amazing deftness, as if she does them all the time.† (source)standard 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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With magic skill and deftest care A head like Ráma's own prepare.† (source)
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Now, surely you can see that under these circumstances all the work that we do is an exercise of the mind and body more or less pleasant to be done: so that instead of avoiding work everybody seeks it: and, since people have got defter in doing the work generation after generation, it has become so easy to do, that it seems as if there were less done, though probably more is produced.† (source)
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He popped some sunflower seeds in his mouth, deftly chewed them, and spat out the shells. (source)deftly = quickly and skillfully
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His head bent over the guitar, his fingers deft, the music a language both mysterious and beautiful, would move David to tears. (source)deft = skillful
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He would pretend at first not to see us, but with the deftness of a cat he would catch the ball and say, "Put your minds where your behinds are, and I'll let you on my team."† (source)
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Lydgate had often fastened the plaits before, being among the deftest of men with his large finely formed fingers.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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