All 4 Uses of
dexterity
in
Great Expectations
- Then she took some butter (not too much) on a knife and spread it on the loaf, in an apothecary kind of way, as if she were making a plaster,—using both sides of the knife with a slapping dexterity, and trimming and moulding the butter off round the crust.†
Chpt 2
- I was secretly afraid of him when I saw him so dexterous; but I felt morally and physically convinced that his light head of hair could have had no business in the pit of my stomach, and that I had a right to consider it irrelevant when so obtruded on my attention.†
Chpt 11dexterous = skillful
- But, he was on his feet directly, and after sponging himself with a great show of dexterity began squaring again.†
Chpt 11 *
- Resenting this little success more than anything, Drummle, without any threat or warning, pulled his hands out of his pockets, dropped his round shoulders, swore, took up a large glass, and would have flung it at his adversary's head, but for our entertainer's dexterously seizing it at the instant when it was raised for that purpose.†
Chpt 26dexterously = adroitly (skillfully)
Definition:
adroitness (skill) -- with the hands or mind