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Skillfully

Skillful \Skill"ful\, a. [Written also skilful.]

  1. Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. [Obs.] ``Of skillful judgment.''
    --Chaucer.

  2. Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; -- often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing.

    And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing.
    --Amos v. 16.

    Syn: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit; clever; cunning. [1913 Webster] -- Skill"ful*ly, adv. -- Skill"ful*ness, n.

Wiktionary
skillfully

adv. In a skillful manner; with skill.

WordNet
skillfully

adv. with skill; "fragments of a nearly complete jug, skillfully restored at the institute of archaeology" [syn: skilfully]

Usage examples of "skillfully".

Out the door, Marietta, who has brought in carryout, has skillfully deployed a napkin between her pizza slice and her TV.

There are deep and tender chords of sympathy and love in the hearts of the downfallen and oppressed that woman can touch more skillfully than man.

I said no harm no foul and offered to ask Gimlet to fellate him very skillfully, however Cheese ignored my offer and took the hand I proffered in friendship and with his poorly maintained hand pulled me down on the attractive bench beside him.

Japan, the Japanese were quietly and skillfully Japanizing the Americans.

So skillfully did Kruger use his hostages that he succeeded, with the help of the British Commissioner, in getting the thousands of excited Johannesburgers to lay down their arms without bloodshed.

The Soviet tanks fired off smoke and desperately tried to engage their enemies, but the Americans were dug in deep, and the German missileers in the village skillfully changed firing points after every shot.

The final series of pictures indicated that the bypasses were skillfully sutured in place and that there was no sign of recent myocardial infarction or heart attack.

On the other hand, prolonged mistreatment, short of physical violence, gives rise, when skillfully applied, to anxiety and a feeling of special guilt.

A chain of posts and fortifications, skillfully disposed by Valens, or the generals of Valens, resisted their march, prevented their retreat, and intercepted their subsistence.

The smallest skillfully captured the head of the team, steering it to a rough collision in the rockbound briar patch.

A couple of tall, shelflike tables, skillfully made, offered space for reading and writing, and there were some books, stored on even higher shelves.

All around them were their battlefields of the spring, and there were the massive ridges of the Massanuttons that Jackson had used so skillfully, not clothed in green now, but with the scanty leaves of closing autumn.

Primed by what had happened downstairs, I was looking to be lost in fantasy, which was what Brody so skillfully engineered.

She ducked skillfully under his arm, and James thought it was a good thing those silly large white hats the ladies wore this season were considered daywear only.

Their car rebounded and then wove more skillfully through the swerving, swiveling cars, to strike the ball a solid blow that sent it rolling over the hood of another car and far down the field where a car, timing its movement perfectly, hit the ball at the precise angle to send it spinning through goalposts and into a net.