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- adjective Common misspelling of
dextrous ., alternative spelling todexterous - adjective Common misspelling of
dexterous .
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Examples
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Sea lions have dexterious back flippers and front and can hold themselves up by the front flippers.
I Has a Bucket - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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People, look, seals are much smaller and do not have dexterious flippers AND are pretty clumsy on land.
I Has a Bucket - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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In this manner, having crossed all the Certaldanes (to his great benefit) and their abuse: he smiled at his sodaine and dexterious devise, in mockery of them, who thought to have made a scorne of him, by dispossessing him of the Feather.
The Decameron 2004
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Bigger kids often win but it leaves a chance for a dexterious, quick child to win also.
outfoxed Diary Entry outfoxed 2001
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