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Deftly


Definition:

  • (adv.) Aptly; fitly; dexterously; neatly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Deft and perceptive, with the ability to contribute his share of goals, Eriksen made his Eredivisie debut at 17 and received his first senior cap at 18, making him the country's youngest international since Michael Laudrup.
  • (2) All you do is deftly lie with your body or with your words.
  • (3) The claim has stunned a community who knew him not as a pale spectre in Taliban videos but as the tall, affable young man who served coffee and deftly fended off jokes about Billy Elliot – he did ballet along with karate, fencing, paragliding and mountain biking.
  • (4) It is based on the comparison of an aerobic plate count (APC) with a count obtained using the Direct Epifluorescent Filter Technique (DEFT).
  • (5) The deft and defs reductions ranged from 60 to 6.5 per cent and 58.8 to 9.6 per cent respectively, and equivalent DMFT and DMFS reductions ranged from 11.1 to 0 per cent, and 33.3 to 16.7 per cent respectively.
  • (6) We will need some deft maneuvering, and perhaps some out-of-the-box thinking.
  • (7) • Sir George Young, attends cabinet as leader of the House of Commons, 71, has been widely praised for his deft handling of MPs across the chamber.
  • (8) And yet with a deftness of touch, Uni Lad – a website for "LADS" – exposed these stereotypes to their bare essentials.
  • (9) A plot of decayed, extracted, and filled teeth (deft) vs. age resulted in a bell-shaped curve that was shifted to the right by 2.5 years for malnourished groups, compared with normal children (p less than 0.01).
  • (10) I lifted my patient's eyelid to check she was dead – and her eyeball came out Read more After some deft manoeuvring with the forceps and a prophylactic course of antibiotics, the offending item was deposited in the medical waste bin.
  • (11) In fact, the first things that strike you about the album are the soulful vocals of Sampha – whose voice does "hurt" better than a wounded puppy – and its deft, garage-inspired rhythms.
  • (12) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Silva had been identified, along with Agüero, as City’s main threat by Leonid Slutsky, the CSKA manager, and it was the Spaniard who slipped the ball through deftly for Dzeko to beat the offside trap.
  • (13) With such a magnificently deft operator, it’s hard to work out what’s really going on behind the smile.
  • (14) The results showed a mean DEFT (decayed, extracted and filled teeth) score of 3.34 for four to six year old children, a mean DEFT of 3.26 for seven to nine year olds and a mean DMFT (decayed, missing and filled permanent teeth) of 5.03 for 10 to 12 year olds.
  • (15) It was a deft move on the part of Putin to build trust.” What was also significant was who was in the room – or rather who wasn’t.
  • (16) 106 samples of chilled, cured canned hams and shoulders have been examined with a traditional plate count technique and with the Direct Epifluorescent Filter Technique (DEFT).
  • (17) Its presence at the sector's policy high table this week is a timely reminder of just how deftly the collapse was dealt with, largely by the sector itself, little more than 12 months ago.
  • (18) Lowell Libson, a member of the export review committee that advises the government on works of art, said: "This portrait is a profoundly personal and impressive demonstration of Van Dyck's confidence as a painter and with his deft manipulation of paint he created the illusion that the viewer is encountering the subject directly.
  • (19) The average baseline D3MFT scores of the 7-, 8- and -9-yr-old urban and rural children were 0.27, 0.33, 0.35 and 0.04, 0.23 and 0.23, respectively; the average deft values were 2.9, 2.4, 2.6 and 1.4, 1.9 and 1.4.
  • (20) Even before her deft performance in the early evening Republican presidential debate last week, Carly Fiorina was being heralded as the candidate who could take on Hillary Clinton .

Neat


Definition:

  • (n. sing. & pl.) Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.
  • (n.) Of or pertaining to the genus Bos, or to cattle of that genus; as, neat cattle.
  • (a.) Free from that which soils, defiles, or disorders; clean; cleanly; tidy.
  • (a.) Free from what is unbecoming, inappropriate, or tawdry; simple and becoming; pleasing with simplicity; tasteful; chaste; as, a neat style; a neat dress.
  • (a.) Free from admixture or adulteration; good of its kind; as, neat brandy.
  • (a.) Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.
  • (a.) With all deductions or allowances made; net. [In this sense usually written net. See Net, a., 3.]

Example Sentences:

  • (1) His bracelets and his hair, neatly gathered in a colourful elasticated band, contrast with his unflashy day-to-day uniform of checked shirts, jeans or cheap chinos and trainers.
  • (2) Ms neatly sidesteps the question of whether or not you are married.
  • (3) This instrument, a modification of a corneal trephine, provides a neat, smooth groove of adjustable depth.
  • (4) But it's still a neat model to watch – and admire.
  • (5) Pitched as a "smart" calendar, it's easy to create appointments and events, and ties in neatly with the developer's separate Any.do to-do lists app.
  • (6) Whether your greatest need is to have a neatly typed letter or an accurately aged accounts receivable report, or it's critical that you create an electronic medical record for decision support, the computer in the medical workplace should: 1.
  • (7) That would neatly end the “fellow traveller” veto, by putting both of the EU’s rogue states in special measures.
  • (8) His neat nails were polished like pebbles and his voice had a soothing, almost balsamic, tone.
  • (9) Toure then lofts a very neat ball over the defence and, though two City players are offside, Aguero is on.
  • (10) Addition of albumin to the serum inhibited the reactivity with both neat and drug-treated serum.
  • (11) Taylor, a sixty-something man with a neatly trimmed beard and a palpable pride in his business, has made "a couple of small sales" so far today, but footfall in the town is pretty underwhelming, and, in the market, almost non-existent.
  • (12) On one side of the road stands an orderly row of RDP houses, their gable ends neatly rendered in pastel shades of peach and tangerine.
  • (13) If his life unspools in the arch, neat fashion of one of his movies then the director Wes Anderson , who'll turn 45 this spring, is halfway through.
  • (14) It is related to physical and physiological factors that derive from the volume of tissue transplanted, the neatness of its fit into the wound, its supportive facilities, its functional activity, its relation to gravity, and the effect of its perimeter scar tissue bed and venous drainage system.
  • (15) Or as Rowan Blanchard , a 13-year-old actress, neatly put it, “the way a black woman experiences sexism and inequality is different from the way a white woman experiences sexism and inequality”.
  • (16) Photograph: Alan Richardson for the Guardian Watt’s wife, Johanna Basford, whose rise has neatly paralleled his (she is the author and illustrator of a phenomenally successful series of adult colouring books that have so far sold 15m copies) also told me at the launch: “They work harder than anyone I know.
  • (17) President Obama's speech on Thursday seemed to put a neat bow on the past four years.
  • (18) When Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Midan Giza, a traffic-snarled interchange on the west bank of the Nile, for Friday prayers, he saw a graphic illustration of Egypt under President Hosni Mubarak: neat rows of police and plainclothes security officers lining the streets to maintain calm.
  • (19) Photograph: AFP Saint Laurent became an object of immediate fascination: quiet, timid, with neatly parted schoolboy hair, anxious eyes lurking behind thick glasses and a frail body encased in a tight black suit.
  • (20) Apart from an early chance for Nicklas Bendtner, who had one-twoed neatly with Cesc Fábregas, there was not a moment when Arsenal were properly in the game.

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