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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
skilful
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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▪ Above all, librarians will have to become ever more skilful managers of information resources.
▪ In any case older animals may be socially more skilful.
▪ Lewis Preston, its new president, must make it more skilful and more efficient.
▪ Brian, who went to New College the following year, lacked my knock-out punch but was a more skilful boxer.
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▪ He established Swindon as one of the most skilful sides outside the top flight before a frustrating switch to Tyneside.
▪ The most skilful players will learn to hold their score together despite the blustery conditions.
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▪ We both employed local Arussi as trackers, some of whom were very skilful and all of whom were tireless.
▪ In my opinion, the Dell 320SLi is a very skilful compromise machine, aimed firmly at travellers.
▪ Thanks to some very skilful hanging each of the four rooms used has a very distinctive flavour all its own.
■ NOUN
use
▪ As the next section shows, the skilful use of mixed messages leads to a range of unintended and counter-productive consequences.
▪ The skilful use of a piece of interesting technology by a visually handicapped pupil can become a source of pride rather than embarrassment.
▪ One can already see many examples where skilful use of information technology has given imaginative and creative business people enormous commercial advantages.
▪ They also responded to the king's skilful use of propaganda to generate support for the war.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Skilful and confident, Donaldson should become one of the game's best players.
▪ Success in business depends on skilful management.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the Schuberts are a skilful bunch - real grown-up musicians with a fantastic sense of performance.
▪ Fanciful though this may sound, Blackburn is a skilful and subtle enough writer to pull it off.
▪ Finally we were told that a team had been formed but that it contained no skilful players, we remained sceptical!
▪ He established Swindon as one of the most skilful sides outside the top flight before a frustrating switch to Tyneside.
▪ Just as only a caterpillar can become a butterfly, the formal stage seems a necessary developmental step to the skilful stage.
▪ Sembene Ousmane is a story-teller and a skilful writer who can carry you along with the drama and the atmosphere regardless of subject.
▪ We both employed local Arussi as trackers, some of whom were very skilful and all of whom were tireless.
▪ With one fierce and skilful kick of his aching foot he will mend a deep concavity in the refrigerator's flank.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Skilful

Skilful \Skil"ful\, a. See Skilful.

Wiktionary
skilful

a. possessing skill, skilled.

WordNet
skilful

adj. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude; "adept in handicrafts"; "an adept juggler"; "an expert job"; "a good mechanic"; "a practiced marksman"; "a proficient engineer"; "a lesser-known but no less skillful composer"; "the effect was achieved by skillful retouching" [syn: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful]

Usage examples of "skilful".

Their skilful guide, changing his plan of operations, then conducted the army by a longer circuit, but through a fertile territory, towards the head of the Euphrates, where the infant river is reduced to a shallow and accessible stream.

To a superficial observer, so wonderful a regularity may be admired as the effect either of chance or design: but a skilful algebraist immediately concludes it to be the work of necessity, and demonstrates, that it must for ever result from the nature of these numbers.

Along the north coast the United States 45h Division, followed by their 3d Division, reached Cape Orlando on August 10, with the aid of two small but skilful outflanking amphibious operations.

There remains nothing, therefore, where an absolute superiority is not attainable, but to produce a relative one at the decisive point, by making skilful use of what we have.

His work was not legerdemain, skilful manipulation, but recreation, and he found the aureate earth in the forests, on the prairies, and in documents contemporary to his theme.

He had been a good scholar in college, not so much by hard study as by skilful veneering, and had taken great pains to stand well with the Faculty, at least one of whom, Byles Gridley, A.

Seated at the same table as herself was a skilful sailor, using logarithms, secants and cosecants, polar distances and hour angles, as if he were in some university class-room.

I need now merely say that I had the good fortune at the time to find an apparently happy confirmation of what was stated in the map in a little printed work which described the discoverer as a learned cosmographer and skilful captain, who had received a special commission from the Viceroy at Goa to make explorations for gold-mines, and at the same time to verify the descriptions of the southern islands.

The whole formed a living picture to which the most skilful painter could not have rendered full justice.

He was a skilful engraver, and director of the Mint of Parma for the Infante, although that prince could not boast of such an institution.

He came promptly to the front as a ready debater and skilful parliamentarian.

Never did even the most skilful painter succeed in rendering justice to the expression of that beautiful head, when the king turned it on one side to look with kindness at anyone.

So skilful was he in drawing and composition that no part of the story was avoided by reason of the elaborateness of the subject.

Desaguliers studied an individual in London named Thomas Topham, who used no ruse in his feats and was not the skilful equilibrist that the German Samson was, his performances being merely the results of abnormal physical force.

Again and again to such gamesome talk, the dexterous dart is repeated, the spear returning to its master like a greyhound held in skilful leash.