deftly
pronunciation
How to pronounce deftly in British English:
UK [deftlɪ]
How to pronounce deftly in American English:
US [ˈdɛftlɪ]
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- Adverb:
- with dexterity; in a dexterous manner
- in a deft manner
Word Origin
- deftly (adv.)
- mid-15c., from deft + -ly (2).
Example
- 1. Mr huckabee 's ideas on health care are considerably sounder , and he sells them deftly .
- 2. A couple of readers deftly avoided such politics by suggesting the blog be named " interesting times " .
- 3. Academic publishers have jumped deftly from paper to the internet .
- 4. Mr. gilb 's struggles with his own keyboard are deftly woven into the text , which contains no capital letters or apostrophes .
- 5. Last december , in a canvas tent erected on a building site in rural east mississippi , haley barbour worked the dirt-floored space as deftly as sonny rollins on a saxophone .