(n.) The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.
Example Sentences:
(1) I wonder whether they'll miss Borini, who was superb for them, holding the ball up adroitly and linking play wonderfully.
(2) Then, drawing on vast experience, they accelerated adroitly, denting young Salter's figures along the way.
(3) The media mogul adroitly launched Sky in 1989 from Luxembourg, because the broadcasting regulations of the time meant that it would have been banned in the UK.
(4) Well-built, forceful yet technically adroit, and an excellent passer, he kept his place in the team.
(5) Serious serial philanderers – the Alan Clark kind of politicians – handle such crises more adroitly than the amateurs.
(6) These include more careful monitoring of the blood pressure with particular care for control of high levels during the early morning hours; attention to all alterable risk factors with care to avoid worsening of other risks with antihypertensive drugs; adroit use of nondrug therapies; and, when drugs are used, the pressure should be lowered slowly and only to a level that avoids coronary hypoperfusion.
(7) He has formed pragmatic partnerships to block progress and has been adroit in synthesising Israel's competing anxieties into a single story with broad appeal, one that sustains him in power.
(8) However, in later years she would confuse and combine the material, so that members of the band would need to skip adroitly from one tune to another at any moment.
(9) Tioté’s absence heightened Newcastle’s initial sense of vulnerability and Leicester might have scored when Leonardo Ulloa imperiously shrugged off his marker before laying off adroitly to Matty James who proceeded to shoot straight at Tim Krul.
(10) He had fleeting success, and ducked under Mayweather's slightly anxious hooks adroitly, to share the points.
(11) Seeking to exacerbate Wearside misery, Darren Fletcher chested a ball down adroitly before unleashing a fine volley, ably diverted by Pickford.
(12) The mild bleeder is less likely to be detected by screening tests than by adroit questioning.
(13) Possibly unnerved by the presence of Lukaku they both failed to take control, leaving the Chelsea loanee to bring the ball down adroitly and step disdainfully around Coloccini's despairing attempt to recover.
(14) The president is very adroit at putting somebody on the spot.” Following the meeting, Meadows said he was still not persuaded by the president’s pitch and that he was confident there was “more than enough” opposition to block it from passage.
(15) Agbonlahor, who had squandered a decent chance to put Villa ahead earlier in the night, linked adroitly with Benteke before skipping round a couple of half-hearted challenges and drilling a left-footed shot that took a deflection, forcing Mignolet into a one-handed save.
(16) Watford nearly restored their two-goal advantage when Ighalo and Deeney combined adroitly but Chancel Mbemba’s splendid late intervention denied Deeney.
(17) Yet no matter how fast and adroitly it jinked and weaved, the pursuing bird held to its tail, maintaining a two-skylark-length distance between them, never closing, never lagging, seeming content with matching every turn of its harried opponent.
(18) 3.34am BST Joe ODonnell (@Joeod3) @LengelDavid Dan Girardi proving he's adroit at using his skate...
(19) At least the 47th minute featured a save, Kelvin Davis repelling Craig Gardner's shot with his legs after Altidore's adroit flick on.
(20) Less of an overt manifesto than The Audacity of Hope, Barack Obama’s book published ahead of his first White House run six years ago, Hard Choices still manages to adroitly position Clinton for a 2016 presidential bid.
Craft
Definition:
(n.) Strength; might; secret power.
(n.) Art or skill; dexterity in particular manual employment; hence, the occupation or employment itself; manual art; a trade.
(n.) Those engaged in any trade, taken collectively; a guild; as, the craft of ironmongers.
(n.) Cunning, art, or skill, in a bad sense, or applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; skill or dexterity employed to effect purposes by deceit or shrewd devices.
(n.) A vessel; vessels of any kind; -- generally used in a collective sense.
(v. t.) To play tricks; to practice artifice.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some parents are blessed with a soul that lights up every time their little precious brings them a carefully crafted portrait or home-made greetings card.
(2) Having read Gill's own account of his experimental sexual connections with his dog in a later craft community at Pigotts near High Wycombe, his woodcut The Hound of St Dominic develops some distinctly disconcerting features.
(3) With this announcement, the UK is demonstrating the type of leadership that nations around the world must take in order to craft a successful agreement in Paris and solve the climate crisis,” said former US vice-president Al Gore.
(4) Ready to be fleeced and swamped, I wandered cautiously along Laugavegur past the lovely independent shops, the clean, friendly streets and ended up in a fun hipsterish bar called the Lebowski, where they serve Tuborg and the craft burgers are named things like The Walter (I ordered The Nihilist).
(5) It is still weird that "arts and crafts" is in the same category as dolls.
(6) The base and prospect of this manoeuver are discussed with a reference to Craft's procedure.
(7) These involved two craft being carried to Mars and landed with precision on its surface.
(8) They aren't pointless; apart from any craft they may teach, they can also offer connections and contacts – a "way in" – which is the modern essential of anyone trying to start a career.
(9) Trump on replacing healthcare law that took years to craft: 'Nobody knew it could be so complicated' Read more Trump held meetings with state governors and health insurance company executives at the White House on Monday.
(10) Camden Town is a creative business with a great range of brands that will complement our existing portfolio.” Mark Benner, managing director of the Society of Independent Brewers (Siba) said: “As craft beer continues to grow in popularity and steal market share we are likely to see more global brewers looking to take over craft breweries, something which makes membership to Siba even more important for breweries looking to differentiate themselves, as consumers look to seek out truly independent craft brewed beers.” • This article was amended on 21 December 2015 because Guinness is owned by Diageo, not SAB Miller as an earlier version said.
(11) JoyJoy was one of them: a twin-stick shooter with well-crafted controls, varied visuals and a well-tuned progression curve.
(12) In the first (1847-1898), it was a craft without an academic and professional base.
(13) The three were meeting later today with the White House, the energy secretary, Stephen Chu, and the interior secretary, Ken Salazar, to craft a bill that would pass in the Senate — and have the support of the Obama administration.
(14) • Amanda Girling-Budd is founder of The School of Stuff in east London: it runs year-long, one-day-a-week craft courses for career changers, five-day intensive courses, 12-week evening classes and one-off days and weekends.
(15) David Cameron spoke of the "thickness" of the glass ceiling she smashed through, again as if other women had been clambering merrily through the gaping governmental hole she had thoughtfully crafted ever since.
(16) It is a lot like the craft beer where we’ve seen big brands say ‘it’s time we bought these brands before they become big competition’.” He said the buyout of the craft gin distiller Monkey 47 by Pernod Ricard in January marked the beginning of a trend that was likely to escalate, although there were few craft gin makers who have reached any serious scale.
(17) We all have our own unique DNA and our own life experiences.” But rather than run from the family name entirely, the former Florida governor is appealing instead to his party’s sense of noblesse oblige – crafting a new version of his brother’s somewhat faded brand of compassionate conservatism.
(18) A triumvirate of Senators — Democrat John Kerry, Republican Lindsey Graham, and Independent Joe Lieberman — are working to craft a climate change bill they think would have a good chance of getting support from Republican as well as Democratic Senators.
(19) Labour are finally crafting a clearer line on Brexit: this morning, the shadow chancellor warned that “losing access to the single market would be devastating for jobs, livelihoods and our public services”, that Britain didn’t vote for “economic misery and the loss of jobs”, and that the government was “abandoning Britain’s clear national interests by putting narrow party political concerns first.” These are good lines – and clarify that Labour’s priority is single-market access – but they will only cut through if repeated in similar language until people can hardly bear to hear them anymore.
(20) Acting is a craft to me: I just think you get better the more you do it.