All 6 Uses
deft
in
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
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- Let's enjoy these aimless days while we can, I told myself, I fearing some kind of deft acceleration.†
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- The two girls looked at Heinrich, anticipating a surgically deft rejoinder.†
Part 3
- This was a deft and lovely maneuver that I was able to appreciate even as it put me at a disadvantage.†
Part 3
- He would be an aphorist of last things, giving me the barest glance—civilized, ironic—as he spoke his deft and stylish line about my journey out.†
Part 3
- I watched him step deftly around a dozen fallen eggs oozing yolky matter from a busted carton.†
Part 3
- This was about as deft a thing as I'd ever done.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(deft) quick and skillful
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)