adroitly

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As far as handling Palin adroitly, and showing her up in the process, my money's still on Biden.

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  1. In an adroit manner; with dexterity; readily; skilfully. He [Eadmund] turned his new conquest adroitly to account by using it to bind to himself the most dangerous among his foes. J. R. Green, Conq. of Eng., p. 266.

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  • Wing Commander III managed to pull this off adroitly, and is to be commended for both letting Mark put the ham back in Hamill, and preventing Malcolm McDowell from frightening small children on the streets, if only for a short while. —  IGN Videogames
  • Had he handled himself more adroitly, the next day's headlines might have read: "New Government Embraces Road Map." —  JPost Headlines
  • One of the problems with securitization as elaborated by Ms. Tavakoli so adroitly is the chain of responsibility and accountability that was broken between lender and borrower. —  US Market Commentary from Seeking Alpha
  • In his Palin interview, as Gibson went after her foreign policy experience, the Alaska governor struck back adroitly: —  BizzyBlog
  • The fact that she reframed her own words (quite adroitly, it must be said) later on does not alter the fact that she said what she said. —  WordPress.com News
 

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