All 8 Uses
adroit
in
Middlemarch
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- The adroit artist was asking Mr. Casaubon questions about English polities, which brought long answers, and, Will meanwhile had perched himself on some steps in the background overlooking all.†
Chpt 2adroit = skillful
- Her presence of mind and adroitness in carrying out his hints were admirable, and it is not wonderful that the idea of seeing Rosamond began to mingle itself with his interest in the case.†
Chpt 3adroitness = quality or degree of skill
- She was quite determined, when she was married, to rid herself adroitly of all the visitors who were not agreeable to her at her father's; and she imagined the drawing-room in her favorite house with various styles of furniture.†
Chpt 3adroitly = skillfully
- "I suspect you of being an adroit flatterer," said Rosamond, feeling sure that she should have to reject this young gentleman a second time.†
Chpt 3 *adroit = skillful
- Mr. Vincy was very little like a Jesuit, but no accomplished Jesuit could have turned a question more adroitly.†
Chpt 4adroitly = skillfully
- She is ready prey to any man who knows how to play adroitly either on her affectionate ardor or her Quixotic enthusiasm; and a man stands by with that very intention in his mind—a man with no other principle than transient caprice, and who has a personal animosity towards me—I am sure of it—an animosity which is fed by the consciousness of his ingratitude, and which he has constantly vented in ridicule of which I am as well assured as if I had heard it.†
Chpt 4
- I expect he is going to blow me up, and you will shield me," said Fred, with some adroitness.†
Chpt 7adroitness = quality or degree of skill
- "Well," said Mrs. Hackbutt, wheeling adroitly, "all I can say is, that I think she ought to separate from him."†
Chpt 8adroitly = skillfully
Definitions:
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(1)
(adroit) skillful in action or thought
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)