The Collaborative International Dictionary
Masterfully \Mas"ter*ful*ly\, adv. In a masterful manner; imperiously.
A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully
and in high contempt of the royal authority.
--Macaulay.
Wiktionary
adv. In a masterful manner; in an extremely confident and competent manner.
WordNet
adv. in a skillfully masterful manner; with the skill of a master; "the young boy played the violin sonata masterfully"
in a domineering and masterful manner; "his gaze held hers masterfully"
Usage examples of "masterfully".
It carried four and a third million of the best people that could be found in Southeast Asia and Oceania away from a field masterfully hidden in the jungle near Angor Wat.
Masterfully deft, he tuned each register, resharpening purity into a razing, bright force.
This Christmas, Peony masterfully carried him up to her family, to Whipple Jackson, vestryman and wholesale grocer, in Faribault.
IX He felt the wild beast in him betweenwhiles So masterfully rude, that he would grieve To see the helpless delicate thing receive His guardianship through certain dark defiles.
He leads Babygirl out onto the polished dance floor as the band plays "I Love You Truly" and how elegantly he dances, how masterfully he leads his bride, blood-red carnation in his lapel, chips of dry ice in his eyes, wide fixed grinning-white dentures, how grace-ful the couple's dips and bends, Babygirl in a breathtakingly beau-tiful antique wedding gown worn by her mother, her grandmother, and her great-grandmother in their times, an heirloom wedding ring as well, lilies of the valley braided in the bride's cinnamon curls, Babygirl laughs showing the cherry-pink interior of her mouth, she squeals Oh!
But the evidence disclosed by rationality will indeed be able to outcontextualize, and thus outtrump, the evidence disclosed within the horizons and the structures of mythic awareness (just as mythic masterfully out-trumped and outcontextualized magic).
Surprisingly, it was a marvelous piece of escape literature, masterfully written.
The inserted material was masterfully done, very carefully filmed to present such a single continuous record of multiple warp jumps and atmospheric insertions and launches.
Alexandros' mother, Paraleia, she who had interrogated me so masterfully after Antirhion, stood beside the girl beneath the same myrtle grove from which Alexandros and I had departed that night years ago to follow the army.
As a group, they began to turn away, rudely, but then Newander, on a sudden impulse, spun back around to face the young priest, who now leaned casually on a fine walking stick, its silver handle sculpted masterfully into the image of a ram's head.
Yet Niven masterfully tells a story about fascinating characters while he shows off this strange, engrossing world without losing the reader.