Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Displaying artistic skill; ingenious; characterized by artistic qualities or treatment.
- Artful; changing; inconstant; insincere.
- Skilful; cunning.
- Also
dædale .
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- noun US Alternative spelling of
daedal .
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Examples
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The answer, to do all the diddies in one dedal, would sound: from pulling himself on his most flavoured canal the huge chest-house of his elders (the Popapreta, and some navico, navvies!) he had flickered up and flinnered down into a drug and drunkery addict, growing megalomane of a loose past.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Bush is finalizing a dedal with Poland, a former soviet satellite, to install a missile "defense shield" in Russia's back yard.
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Bush is finalizing a dedal with Poland, a former soviet satellite, to install a missile "defense shield" in Russia's back yard.
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‘volcano’ and ‘volcanic’, and Dædalus ‘dedal’, if this word may on
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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