All 8 Uses of
deft
in
Ender's Game
- Deftly he propelled him down the aisle toward the other man.
p. 48.9deftly = skillfully
- Holos of clean wars of the fleet, ships turning into puffs of light as the spacecraft killed each other deftly in the deep night.
p. 58.2deftly = quickly and skillfully
- They played again, and this time Ender was deft enough to pull off a few maneuvers that the boy had obviously never seen before.
p. 59.7deft = skillful
- She shoved off, spinning deliberately; with a few deft hand moves she steadied herself, and began aiming carefully at ball after ball.
p. 85.2deft = quick and skillful
- They had become quite deft at sifting accurate information out of the stories of the hopelessly ignorant, gullible news writers.
p. 115.4
- Now that he'd got quite deft at maneuvering without one, here it was.
p. 137.1
- She crawled onto the boat, not as deftly as Ender.
p. 191.6 *deftly = quickly and skillfully
- Dink, who deftly carried out instructions but was slow to improvise; Bean, who couldn't control large groups of ships effectively but could use only a few like a scalpel, reacting beautifully to anything the computer threw at him; Alai, who was almost as good a strategist as Ender and could be entrusted to do well with half a fleet and only vague instructions.
p. 219.1