He handled the situation adroitly. From LearnThat.org.
He handled the situation adroitly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an adroit debater. From Dictionary.com.
Charlottesville would probably attract many more through travelers and if handled adroitly from a planning standpoint, that would represent a nice business proposition. From Wordnik.com. [Meadowcreek Debate: Lynch Responds at cvillenews.com] Reference
Cole choreographed adroitly for the Broadway stage. From Wordnik.com. [Debra Levine: American Master Choreographer Jack Cole Feted at Jacob's Pillow] Reference
Elisabeth, smiling faintly, adroitly turned the conversation. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
He obstructed the draft as adroitly as he could, claiming inequities. From Wordnik.com. [Between the Lines Secret Service Stories Told Fifty Years After] Reference
These anti-Feds adroitly package their ideology in down-to-earth terms. From Wordnik.com. [Defiance In The Sun Belt] Reference
She had a favourite quotation, adroitly mangled, to suit such occasions. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
The colonel adroitly avoided the first question by answering the second. From Wordnik.com. [The Unnecessary Man] Reference
Father Francis was often at the Castle, and played the peacemaker very adroitly. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Superficially, Beijing would seem to have managed the North Korean crisis adroitly. From Wordnik.com. [China Needs New Priorities] Reference
Doctor Hugh adroitly shifted the wandering feet by turning Sarah back to her original position. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
The men who use it are doubtless well aware of the prodigious power of such cries adroitly raised. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He completed them himself so adroitly, that the best musicians cannot distinguish Weber from Mahler. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
But the girl veered away from such a subject, however adroitly introduced, just like a scared rabbit. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Arethusa] Reference
Donnie improvises adroitly, playing on his comrades 'xenophobia to turn them against the Japanese host. From Wordnik.com. [Married To The Mob] Reference
He climbed on top and guided Billy inside of him while her moistened fingers adroitly found his button. From Wordnik.com. [Sympathy] Reference
He was answered that the villains had managed so adroitly, they did not suspect deception, till too late. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
He did, adroitly -- and made Gore's painfully elliptical comments on those subjects look needlessly cautious. From Wordnik.com. [Two Beijing Ducks] Reference
Now, as was proper, Tallis would move adroitly all around the subject until he was ready to return to it again. From Wordnik.com. [The Highest Treason] Reference
It was inconceivable that I, who for years had carried on the traffic so adroitly, could be serious in the idea. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
"Then suppose we drop the Mr. Stanwood, and take up Clem, who already was somewhat advanced!" he said, adroitly. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference
So far, Kohl and his political ally in East Germany, Prime Minister Lothar de Maiziere, have maneuvered adroitly. From Wordnik.com. [A New Germany] Reference
Ann knew this clipping was a sham, designed at Steve's request by Peggy, adroitly using Adobe's fantastical software. From Wordnik.com. [French Vanilla Death - Prima Parte] Reference
Redder and redder flushed Pat's cheeks, seeing which the widow adroitly drew the general attention to her second son. From Wordnik.com. [The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys] Reference
Haroun's voyage is full of pranks and adventures and wordplay, which Rushdie handles adroitly and with obvious delight. From Wordnik.com. [The Stories Never Stop] Reference
But the film falls short in achieving on screen what Süskind did so adroitly on the page: conjuring the world of smells. From Wordnik.com. [An Alluring 'Perfume'] Reference
Tarver uses a few lens-manipulation and darkroom tricks to evoke antique photography, but he does so adroitly and with restraint. From Wordnik.com. [Arts Extra: The 'Censorship Drill Again? Yo Mama!'] Reference
Sure enough the halter was adroitly transferred to the plant, the collar gently flapping like a snake's sloughed skin in the breeze. From Wordnik.com. [Knell Quarternion] Reference
Even in defeat, Duke gained a strong new national platform for his adroitly packaged appeals to white racism and economic resentment. From Wordnik.com. [Saying 'No' To Duke] Reference
Clark, who adroitly laid out the state's "trail of blood" theory in the opening, will have to curb her appearance of being on a vendetta. From Wordnik.com. [Clean Hands Or Bloody?] Reference
If you professedly use a borrowed coin, you must adroitly change it for your own, tinder pretence of showing how to spin it, or the like. From Wordnik.com. [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference
"I should be foolish, indeed, did I do so," replied Monte-Cristo, seeing the brigand chief's trap and adroitly avoiding being caught in it. From Wordnik.com. [Monte-Cristo's Daughter] Reference
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