What's the difference between handily and skillfully?

Handily


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But with the privilege of hindsight – plus a very long afternoon wading through the responses to the green paper – handily archived on the iLegal site – it probably wasn't the time to give ministers the benefit of the doubt, no matter how slender and qualified that benefit was.
  • (2) In fairness, despite being outshot handily by Sporting KC, New York did score three well-finished goals that will do a lot to rid the hold their Eastern rivals have had over them in recent versions of this fixture (New York needed an own goal to get on the scoresheet in their last five encounters with SKC), and they can now point to scoring four, four and three in the games against Shield rivals Montreal, RSL and now Sporting in three of their last four games, so they've hardly taken the easy route to the summit.
  • (3) Appendino’s surprise victory in June, in which she handily defeated the incumbent Democrat Piero Fassino, has made the 31-year-old the darling of M5S.
  • (4) Johnson's riposte has been to start a rerun of the whole process , scheduling it to end handily close to an expected change of government and surely heartened by shadow culture secretary Jeremy Hunt's indication that he, unlike Bradshaw, wouldn't prevent Johnson from getting his way.
  • (5) Romney won handily in all three of Tuesday's contests.
  • (6) Every time I see Lindsey Graham spew hate during interviews I ask why the media never questions how I single handily [sic] destroyed his hapless run for president.
  • (7) Though SKC handily beat the Reds 2-1 when they last met, in late July at BMO Field, Peter Vermes’ team didn’t look their best against the Whitecaps in a 2-0 defeat last weekend.
  • (8) Michael Aston says: "Gotta feeling Ravens will win handily, not convinced San Fran have the mettle for this type of game against a vicious, tireless D and Flaco has been stellar lately.
  • (9) And it can be solved by adult children looking after their parents, with "the reverence and respect" of their Asian counterparts (who also, handily enough, make do without all that welfare-state padding).
  • (10) South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham was also sent back to the Senate, having handily defeated his seat for a third term.
  • (11) The curve is his calling card, but he also collects and publishes a vast trove of economic data on state revenues and taxes that seems to – handily – point to one conclusion: taxes bad, tax cuts good.
  • (12) Honestly, I don’t think that he can read.” The first election-day ballots were cast in rural New Hampshire, where Clinton beat Donald Trump handily with a 4-2 win in the township of Dixville Notch.
  • (13) Kone holds the ball up well, shielding it so McArthur can burst on to it as the City defence handily opens up for him.
  • (14) Full of scientific lunacy and wild action, this book spawned a slew of sequels chronicling the exploits of group Capt Timothy "Tiger" Clinton RAF (retired), his son Rex, Prof Lucias Brane and his butler Judkins in the good ship Spacemaster (which handily runs on the cosmic rays all around us – which certainly saves on fuel bills).
  • (15) He will move on to a perhaps similarly straightforward examination of his first‑week form against the Frenchman Adrian Mannarino, who defeated Kyle Edmund handily on Court 2, while Ward is left to contemplate what will probably be his only match on Centre Court against the best player in the world.
  • (16) The world might be a much better place if most obstacles could be overcome this handily.
  • (17) It also suggests that the 1928-set film will "handily corner the upscale adult demo for the remainder of summer, continuing the Woodman’s late-career hot streak".
  • (18) As for social conservative activist and commentator Bryan Fischer, Romney would be winning handily if he just was running on banning gay marriage.
  • (19) "Indeed it exists," writes Claudio Kristeller, who handily sends in this link (scroll down).
  • (20) Selling e-cigarettes also allows the tobacco companies access to the politicians and public health bodies who are currently debating how the vaping market should be regulated, Gilmore points out – handily circumventing Article 5.3 of the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control , which effectively bars the industry from so much as talking to governments about public health policy in relation to tobacco.

Skillfully


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Hoursoglou thinks a shortage of skilled people with a good grounding in core subjects such as maths and science is a potential problem for all manufacturers.
  • (2) Training in social skills specific to fostering intimacy is suggested as a therapeutic step, and modifications to the social support measure for future use discussed.
  • (3) But if you want to sustain a long-term relationship, it's important to try to develop other erotic interests and skills, because most partners will expect and demand that.
  • (4) It appeared that ratings by supervisors were influenced primarily by the interpersonal skills of the residents and secondarily by ability.
  • (5) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
  • (6) The skill of the surgeon was not a significant factor in maternal deaths.
  • (7) "Runners, for instance, need a high level of running economy, which comes from skill acquisition and putting in the miles," says Scrivener, "But they could effectively ease off the long runs and reduce the overall mileage by introducing Tabata training.
  • (8) The need for follow-up studies is stressed to allow assessment of the effectiveness of the intervention and to search for protective factors, successful coping skills, strategies and adaptational resources.
  • (9) Independent t test results indicated nurses assigned more importance to psychosocial support and skills training than did patients; patients assigned more importance to sensation--discomfort than did nurses.
  • (10) Both microcomputer use and tracking patient care experience are technical skills similar to learning any medical procedure with which physicians are already familiar.
  • (11) They have already missed the critical periods in language learning and thus are apt to remain severely depressed in language skills at best.
  • (12) A teaching package is described for teaching interview skills to large blocks of medical students whilst on their psychiatric attachment.
  • (13) The intervention represented, for the intervention team, an opportunity to learn community organization and community education skills through active participation in the community.
  • (14) In contrast, children who initially have good verbal imitation skills apparently show gains in speech following simultaneous communication training alone.
  • (15) There is extant a population of subjects who have average or better than average interpretive reading skills as measured by standardized tests but who read slowly and inefficiently.
  • (16) To not use those skills would be like Gigi Buffon not using his enormous hands.
  • (17) The focus will be on assessment of the gravid woman's anxiety levels and coping skills.
  • (18) The functional role of corticocortical input projecting to the motor cortex in learning motor skills was investigated by training 3 cats with and without the projection area.
  • (19) Gauging the proper end point of methohexital administration is accomplished through skilled observation of the patient.
  • (20) Keepy-uppys should be a simple skill for a professional footballer, so when Tom Ince clocked himself in the face with the ball while preparing to take a corner early in the second half, even he couldn't help but laugh.

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