All 8 Uses of
deft
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Tonight deftly amid wild drink and talk, to pierce the polished mail of his mind.†
Chpt 2 *
- Martin Cunningham, first, poked his silkhatted head into the creaking carriage and, entering deftly, seated himself.†
Chpt 6
- Mr Bloom put on his hat and saw the portly figure make its way deftly through the maze of graves.†
Chpt 6
- Slipping his words deftly into the pauses of the clanking he drew swiftly on the scarred woodwork.†
Chpt 7
- He sank two lumps of sugar deftly longwise through the whipped cream.†
Chpt 10
- ZOE: (Catches a stray hair deftly and twists it to her coil) No bloody fear.†
Chpt 15
- Virag reaches the door in two ungainly stilthops, his tail cocked, and deftly claps sideways on the wall a pusyellow flybill, butting it with his head.†
Chpt 15
- With a deft kick he sends it spinning to his crown and jauntyhatted skates in.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(deft) quick and skillful