Sample Sentences for
deft
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    Hands made for fine, deft movements.  (source)
    deft = skillful
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    Now that he'd got quite deft at maneuvering without one, here it was.  (source)
    deft = quick and skillful
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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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    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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    When he flicked his brush, his deftness was practiced and reflexive, weirdly unsettling.†  (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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    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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    Lydgate had often fastened the plaits before, being among the deftest of men with his large finely formed fingers.†  (source)
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    My right hand deftly held three throwing daggers.  (source)
    deftly = 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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    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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    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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    They, together with a number of the newspaper editors, had a long interview with the heads of the Government and two or three military men, the deftest in their art that the country could furnish.†  (source)
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