All 11 Uses
adroit
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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- Reassured by her mistress' confident tone, Eliza proceeded nimbly and adroitly with her toilet, laughing at her own fears, as she proceeded.†
Chpt 1.1 *adroitly = skillfully
- This young man had been hired out by his master to work in a bagging factory, where his adroitness and ingenuity caused him to be considered the first hand in the place.†
Chpt 1.2adroitness = quality or degree of skill
- "It's an ill wind dat blow nowhar,—dat ar a fact," said Sam, sententiously, giving an additional hoist to his pantaloons, and adroitly substituting a long nail in place of a missing suspender-button, with which effort of mechanical genius he seemed highly delighted.†
Chpt 1.6adroitly = skillfully
- Sam, upon this, began to bestir himself in real earnest, and after a while appeared, bearing down gloriously towards the house, with Bill and Jerry in a full canter, and adroitly throwing himself off before they had any idea of stopping, he brought them up alongside of the horse-post like a tornado.†
Chpt 1.6
- On pretence of adjusting the saddle, he adroitly slipped under it the sharp little nut, in such a manner that the least weight brought upon the saddle would annoy the nervous sensibilities of the animal, without leaving any perceptible graze or wound.†
Chpt 1.6
- "Yes, ma'am," said Topsy, as before;—but we will add, what Miss Ophelia did not see, that, during the time when the good lady's back was turned in the zeal of her manipulations, the young disciple had contrived to snatch a pair of gloves and a ribbon, which she had adroitly slipped into her sleeves, and stood with her hands dutifully folded, as before.†
Chpt 2.20
- Topsy, with great gravity and adroitness, went through the exercise completely to Miss Ophelia's satisfaction; smoothing the sheets, patting out every wrinkle, and exhibiting, through the whole process, a gravity and seriousness with which her instructress was greatly edified.†
Chpt 2.20adroitness = quality or degree of skill
- Henrique, who valued himself on his gentlemanly adroitness in all matters of gallantry, soon had his fair cousin in the saddle, and, gathering the reins, placed them in her hands.†
Chpt 2.23
- With so well-trained a hand and eye, such perfect adroitness and practice in every art which could promote neatness and comfort, and keep out of sight every disagreeable incident of sickness,—with such a perfect sense of time, such a clear, untroubled head, such exact accuracy in remembering every prescription and direction of the doctors,—she was everything to him.†
Chpt 2.26
- The girl looked timidly at her mother, who, with the smooth adroitness common among her class, answers, "I was telling her, last night, to put up her hair smooth and neat, and not havin' it flying about in curls; looks more respectable so."†
Chpt 2.30
- He saw, at a glance, that a native adroitness and handiness made the task to her an easier one than it proved to many.†
Chpt 2.33
Definitions:
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(1)
(adroit) skillful in action or thought
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)