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deft

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1. deft - Adjective

2. deft - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Apt; fit; dexterous; clever; handy; spruce; neat.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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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.) Dr. Seuss

Poetry is: a classifying, a botanizing, a voracity of contemplation, a pleasure, an indulgence, an infatuation in which the actual is a deft benficence. Marianne Moore

Your thoughts move with the deft precision of worm-tracks in the mud. Jack Vance

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. Gilles Villeneuve

There are fortunes to be made out of bristle for a man with deft hands. Lindsey Davis

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.) George Eliot

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