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  • adverb Alternative form of dexterously.

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  • adverb with dexterity; in a dexterous manner

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Examples

  • With the left hand they dipped up sand, handled this skilfully or "dextrously" with the right hand, so that in a few minutes they could give grains of gold to the gratified explorers.

    The life of Christopher Columbus: from his own letters and journals and other documents of his time. 1891

  • Enjoyably plotted, sometimes dextrously turned, but groaning with moral sententiousness, This Happy Breed is peppered with moments in which characters proclaim the importance of using their own words, of not slipping into jargon, in particular the second-hand vocabulary of 1930s socialism.

    This Happy Breed; Henry IV, Parts One and Two – review 2011

  • "The last two albums didn't count," Eminem sniffs, resolving to employ the zeal of the recently recovered to rhyme dextrously about doing vile things to women.

    Eminem: Recovery 2010

  • And a fly decided to take residence behind the window blind alongside me - until it was dextrously caught and removed by our ace reporter.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Brian Clegg 2009

  • And a fly decided to take residence behind the window blind alongside me - until it was dextrously caught and removed by our ace reporter.

    I'm ready for my closeup, Ms DeMille Brian Clegg 2009

  • A newspaper in January 1767 describes a blacksmith from Bridgwater in Somerset—fifteen miles from Cheddar—who went shooting on Christmas day: On Pallet Hill he espied a large flight of old ravens, fired and killed two, which so exasperated the rest, that they immediately descended upon him, and plied their bills and claws so dextrously about his head and face that notwithstanding all possible care was taken of him, he died last Monday.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • Force and fraud were then dextrously applied to secure his ascent from the Dalriadan to the Pictish throne a few years later.

    'The Invention of Scotland: History and Myth' 2008

  • Dressed for the final day in a blue V-neck chemise, with a gold necklace draped across his concave, hairless chest and the gold championship bracelet weighing down his wrist, Stuey dextrously shuffled his small pile of chips with his chopstick-thin fingers.

    One of a Kind Nolan Dalla 2005

  • Dressed for the final day in a blue V-neck chemise, with a gold necklace draped across his concave, hairless chest and the gold championship bracelet weighing down his wrist, Stuey dextrously shuffled his small pile of chips with his chopstick-thin fingers.

    One of a Kind Nolan Dalla 2005

  • Dressed for the final day in a blue V-neck chemise, with a gold necklace draped across his concave, hairless chest and the gold championship bracelet weighing down his wrist, Stuey dextrously shuffled his small pile of chips with his chopstick-thin fingers.

    One of a Kind Nolan Dalla 2005

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