Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a masterful or imperious manner.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a masterful manner; imperiously.
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- adverb In a
masterful manner; in an extremelyconfident andcompetent manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a skillfully masterful manner; with the skill of a master
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Examples
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What he understands and articulates masterfully is the degree to which people relate without language, simply through the way they behave to and with each other.
Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008
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What he understands and articulates masterfully is the degree to which people relate without language, simply through the way they behave to and with each other.
Notes on Strange Fiction: The Pataphysical Quirk Hal Duncan 2008
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Impressive not only for its content and candor, but because the guy can flat-out write — he turns a phrase masterfully, but also has a talent for finding the illuminating perspective or a telling anecdote.
Science and Culture at the White House Sean 2008
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And let's make it at least 24 months before a film can be referred to as masterfully or beautifully "restored."
Home Theater Forum Ken_McAlinden 2010
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During the debate in the U.N. Security Council on January 6, 2009 the Israeli Ambassador Gabriela Shalev delivered a speech that can only be described as masterfully crafted lies, myths, and spin to defend the indefensible in Israel's "genocide du jour" against the Palestinians that began in 1944.
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"masterfully" about the deliberate twisting and revision of my views to fit the racist, bigoted, distorted and clouded "lens" through which the RA letters sees everything poorly.
unknown title 2009
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There are only moments in which idiots like us get masterfully played by the gods.
The Bushman Way of Tracking God PhD Bradford Keeney 2010
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To the journalist Yelena Tregubova, Putin was an almost translucent figure, so intent on not standing out that he “blended masterfully with the colors of his own office.”
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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If he harbors any fear of my displeasure, he conceals it masterfully.
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
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What follows is a groundbreaking, at times haunting portrait rendered entirely through masterfully selected and edited official news footage, home movies and propaganda shot from 1965 to 1989.
Reconstructive History Kristin M. Jones 2012
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