Adroitness
[ə'drɔitnis]
Definition
(n.) The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.
Typed by Benjamin
Examples
- It would be, you know, dear, she added with an innocent adroitness, in Madame Olenska's interest if you did. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- We permeated the party organizations, writes Shaw, and pulled all the wires we could lay our hands on with our utmost adroitness and energy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- I expect he is going to blow me up, and you will shield me, said Fred, with some adroitness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He saw, at a glance, that a native adroitness and handiness made the task to her an easier one than it proved to many. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Edited by Ethelred