deft
Speech parts
1. deft - Adjective
2. deft - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat.
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Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)
Poetry is: a classifying, a botanizing, a voracity of contemplation, a pleasure, an indulgence, an infatuation in which the actual is a deft benficence.
Your thoughts move with the deft precision of worm-tracks in the mud.
Behind the wheel of a racing car he was fearfully quick, never stopped trying, and could extricate himself from the most precarious situations with deft brilliance.
There are fortunes to be made out of bristle for a man with deft hands.
Each day he wrought and better than he planned, Shape breeding shape beneath his restless hand. (The soul without still helps the soul within, And its deft magic ends what we begin.)