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    deft


    1. The medic finds a vein and despite the distraction of rapid motion caused by hanging drip lines he is deft and assured as he inserts a catheter into her forearm, hooks up a bag of saline and begins to administer four hundred micrograms of naloxone through the intravenous connection that is keeping Bex in touch with the physical world around her


    2. Their deft hands could not be replaced for producing the highest quality wrappings and attention to consistent quality


    3. One of these was a certain magistrate who by deft manipulation, had left the bench, saucepans, and a fawning sergeant far behind


    4. Then, after a deft kick to his ankle, the ‘god’ was tripping over his own feet


    5. “Indeed? How I could have used your deft ear as I struggled against Troy… Never


    6. Danny, using a deft combination of wheelchair movements and yanks of his neck and mouth gathered his wallet from under the pillow and began trundling toward the lift in his electric wheelchair


    7. He released the magnetic door catch by a deft flick of his chair and prepared to enter the realm of the Sapient Ones


    8. Fortunately, I had the deft touch


    9. It was an enormously deft and subtle manipulation, designed to appeal to both war hawks and doves


    10. Then his hand was at the button of my pants, and in two deft movements, they were loose

    11. He shifted to lift up my hips, then hooked his thumbs down to slide against my skin and pull pants and panties off in one deft motion


    12. His surprise alerted his reflexes and with a sudden and deft move he was on his feet, his head turning in all directions, trying to establish some sort of enemy direction to no avail


    13. I was mesmerized by them in their effortless choreography of deft movement around the leather steering wheel as they kept the car perfectly aligned and under control


    14. Hands made for fine, deft movements


    15. So her deft fingers tuck pieces of my hair into one braid that tickles the middle of my spine


    16. He wipes the screen with his sleeve and navigates with deft fingers to our mother’s first journal entry


    17. moment of silence followed his deft attempt to launch a new subject


    18. Petunia decided to take action and with a deft click of the


    19. With a deft click, Hobbs had managed to prize up the lever, smashed the steering lock and began working the electrics


    20. ” the dark girl laughed as she playfully tossed Reen into her armchair with a deft twist, then curled up in his lap

    21. Titus managed to evade the shield bash that followed, with a deft sideways roll retrieving Tress’s fallen sabre as he did so


    22. With deft strokes the bull was slaughtered and placed on the altar


    23. With one deft talon the roc grabbed at the fisherman’s head


    24. Satin slippers were put upon her slender feet, and a few deft touches of Vateesa's pink fingers arranged her dark wavy tresses


    25. In a chamber of the palace Tarascus writhed and cursed on a blood-spattered couch, under the deft, quick fingers of Orastes


    26. A few deft taps on the console sent power to the motors, but within seconds the straining sound and shuddering, followed by instant shut down, confirmed their worst fears


    27. The knife was sharp and her stroke deft


    28. With a few deft lines from his pen he produced a grid of nine windows


    29. All of Ben's feints, thrusts, and parries were deft and accurate


    30. They are deft at processing, whether this be people or problems, and they are willing to take on more than their fair share of responsibility, which on the negative side can lead them to deliberately multiply their burdens and then feel put upon; or to push into areas where their counsel is neither needed nor appreciated

    31. With deft cuts, he sliced open the belly of the animal and quickly slit away the pelt


    32. His eyes ran up and down her exposed body and then his hands moved lower to her belt, carefully undoing the buckle, then snapping the belt out in one deft powerful movement, the tip just lightly stinging her wrist as it came out, adding to her growing excitement


    33. coated the ground in a deft white wrapping


    34. Ivar raised his sword and, with one deft move, decapitated Finn


    35. In a few deft movements she had rearranged the string into a presentable form


    36. " Geniuses in this civilization are devious, deft


    37. The movements of her fingers were deft and precise but languid, exuding raw sensuality


    38. Really I am rather a deft person, used to jugs, and not, as a rule, of hasty or unconsidered movements


    39. The landlord, deft and noiseless, was giving a finishing touch of roses and fruit and candles to the supper table


    40. A week later they were married; and the Bishop, inscrutably watching Ingeborg from the doorstep as she was being tucked by deft hands into the rugs of the car that was to take her to the station, observing how cushions were put in the right places at her back, how a footstool was carefully inserted under her feet, how her least movement was interpreted and instantly attended to, made his farewell remark to his daughter--the last remark, as it happened, that he ever did make to her

    41. Tussie thought of this each time he sat at his own meals, surrounded by deft menials, lapped as he told himself in luxury,--oh, thought Tussie writhing, it was base


    42. He then picked up the scalpel off the tray and in a single deft movement severed the toe


    43. They had a salad that George mixed at the table with a deft skill


    44. At first glance, this trainee represented all the physical traits that formed one of the great Thorns, who killed seemingly limitless numbers of enemies with deft strokes of their swords and an air of well-earned self-confidence


    45. With a deft lunge, the Bergsbor’s foot shot out towards Liam’s injured shoulder, but the Thorn had sensed the move and rolled away to his right


    46. bunch of eating bananas, then with a deft movement he tied


    47. The gaffer of the masons laid his bricks with a deft rhythm that soothed the soul and Rafferty felt sorely in need of such balm


    48. meal up like any deft cook at home in a Cook-house


    49. Try always to do as much as possible with one stroke of the brush; paint has a vitality when the touches are deft, that much handling and continual touching kills


    50. In cases where the correction of intricate modelling is desired and where it would be very difficult to alter a part accurately by a deft stroke of the brush, this method is useful to employ



































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    Synonyms for "deft"

    deft dexterous dextrous adept skilled accomplished master skilful expert practiced

    "deft" definitions

    skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands