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superior skill

n. more than ordinary ability

Usage examples of "superior skill".

This obliged them to make all the speed they could to evade the enemy, when they could but lament the absence of Dantes, whose superior skill in the management of a vessel would have availed them so materially.

The ordinary machines, invented to batter or undermine the walls, were rendered ineffectual by the superior skill of the Romans.

The third foreseeable circumstance was that Chimali would kill me, through his superior skill at weaponry or because I withheld my own killing blow or because his ton&aacute.

It is cowardly to force your antagonist to renew the combat, when you know that you have the advantage of him by superior skill.

Two men who are recognized as great, as having superior skill, by over two-thirds of the world.

He hurled himself into the shield, depending upon strength and bulk rather than risking facing a swordsman who might have superior skill.

He hurled himself into the shield, dependingupon strength and bulk rather than risking facing a swordsmanwho might have superior skill.