Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an adroit manner; with dexterity; readily; skilfully.
Wiktionary
- adv. Deftly; in an adroit manner.
- adv. In a manner exhibiting skill at handling situations, particularly difficult situations.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. In an adroit manner.
WordNet 3.0
- adv. with adroitness; in an adroit manner
Etymologies
- adroit + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Charlottesville would probably attract many more through travelers and if handled adroitly from a planning standpoint, that would represent a nice business proposition.”
“Coleman exploited the issue adroitly, never making it personal or disrespectful, but always mentioning the need for new ideas and fresh energy in Washington.”
“Ruddy claimed that there is no formal or business relationship with Trump but added, Trump realizes the great potential of Newsmax and has been using it very adroitly.”
“Luckily the orchestra, under Lothar Koenigs, were playing so adroitly that the slipped dialogue and consequent collapse of surtitles in the prologue hardly mattered, expertly brought back on course by the nimble conductor.”
The Guardian: The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida
“It's not precisely SF, but it deploys SF tropes adroitly - not that it would matter if it didn't.”
“Definitely worth seeing for just the technical achievement in visuals and definiately for the 3-D, which I thoughts was handled adroitly.”
“I adroitly delude myself that I have the know-how and Con cred to efficiently maximize my enjoyment, but my plans, without exception, get tossed shortly after I grab my badge.”
“House Republicans adroitly shifted the debate's focus from how much to raise the debt ceiling to how much should spending be cut.”
“The Nixon-Kissinger center-right also more or less subscribed to this view that America was in decline relative to the Soviets, a decline that needed to be managed adroitly through brilliant diplomacy: thus, detente.”
“The mixture of classical elements and point work with flamenco and ballet adroitly fused with the live music, led by singer Jose Onell Carbonell.”
The Huffington Post: Christopher Atamian: Falling for Dance, Again
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘adroitly’.
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Adverbia
A long list of adverbs, beginning with full-drive. Someone had to list them. This list in continued in the list More Adverbia.
Read some sniping and some informative commentary about a...full-drive, portentously, unlawfully, legally, heterogeneously, consumingly, clancularly, inconsolably, prepositionally, retrogressively, symptomatically, decrepitly and 2460 more...
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kumokun's Words
gumption, simulacrum, bravado, consternation, sturm und drang, ubiquitous, trajectory, melody, veritable, crestfallen, galvanize, symphony and 70 more...
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Used in conversation
Words I had to look up because either A) I didn't know what they meant, or B) I wanted a more precise definition so I could argue on some obscure point.
cynical, androgyny, indignation, bedouin, mirthless, indiscriminate, pedantic, licentious, acquiesce, misanthropic, adroitly, glib and 15 more...
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Ender's Game
acquiescence, scathing, adroitly, percolate, jut, cud, cusp, prod, derisive, interstice, attrition, extraneous and 3 more...
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charch's Words
ointment, fester, flummox, feckless, adroitly, alacrity, dolt, obsfucate, anathema, confluence, missive, capricious and 6 more...
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novel-anna karenina
disparate, preponderantly, incertitude, disquisition, adroitly
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