deftness
Example Sentences
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Lowry’s juggling of staff loyalty, curatorial independence and board direction required a deftness of touch and grace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Men who don’t understand Los Angeles will never understand me, and for that, they’re unworthy of my deftness at loving.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2025
Emecheta, with immense deftness and subtlety, provides a haunting and forceful attack on patriarchy, sexism and misogyny in Nigeria, and indicates how they taint and limit a nation.
From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024
Mr Scalise will have to demonstrate a political deftness if he wants to avoid a similar fate.
From BBC • Oct. 11, 2023
Will marveled at the deftness in those huge black hooks.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
