Adjective : a practiced hand at politics. ,a practiced English accent. From Dictionary.com.
Even cleaning, rightly understood and practised, is a useful, and therefore honorable, profession. From Wordnik.com. [Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution] Reference
I would love to add "the ability to abstain from long term practised masturbation. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
'For,' said he, 'I'm not what you would call a practised hand wi' a velocipede, and my feet are dinnled wi 'standin' in the snaw. '. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Standfast] Reference
Yet it is only an objection, so far as it goes, against transportation as formerly practised, that is to say, with enormous prisons built in distant lands. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Sociology] Reference
When the eyes are nearly brought to an equality by exercise, but cannot both be directed to the same point, Dr. Jurin's method may be practised, which is as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease] Reference
As we greeted each other, he said, with a kind of practised, jovial menace: "Don't drop any litter now, will you.". From Wordnik.com. [GREENIE WATCH] Reference
Here the new custom of tobacco-smoking was practised. From Wordnik.com. [Quotations from Georg Ebers] Reference
France, and is practised in this country by the best bred persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
These are suggestions which the practised story-teller will find trite. From Wordnik.com. [How to Tell Stories to Children, And Some Stories to Tell] Reference
When there is any indication of constipation, this should be practised. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
This shews that fasting was commanded and practised from the earliest times. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 15: 1 Esdras The Challoner Revision] Reference
If charity is the queen of virtues, Sister Bourgeois practised it to heroism. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
Drenching with hot water, or with about one ounce of ipecacuan may be practised. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
"I don't dance to perfection, never having practised much, but with a good will.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
These letters were filled with painful details of the severities practised upon him. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
In the cow this method of diagnosis is practised during the latter periods of pregnancy. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
She had been long at school before we suspected the deception that was practised upon us. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
At the elections, they practised intimidation and every form of election fraud then known. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
The Abderhalden test for determining whether or not an animal is pregnant is now practised. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
The latter of these iniquities is practised only in Ireland; the former perhaps in Kamskatcha. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
Theauthors also remind us that genital mutilation was practised regularly in England until the 1860s. From Wordnik.com. [Half the Sky: how the trafficking of women today is on a par with genocide] Reference
"In general, consumers don't know the legitimacy of charges practised in the banking sector," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Banks Fined for Fee Cartel in France] Reference
It is practised all over Afghanistan, including by the state that Nato troops are currently dying to support. From Wordnik.com. [Should British soldiers be dying for the rights of Afghan women? No.] Reference
Even so, it's clear that he'll still be at a disadvantage compared to his inevitably more practised opponents. From Wordnik.com. [The Karate Kid betrays America's fear of China] Reference
Sister Bourgeois had now lived four years in Ville-Marie, during which time she had practised the most heroic virtues. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Venerable Sister Margaret Bourgeois] Reference
I do believe that the only sweetness in life is in being good, and those only who have never practised virtue, doubt it. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
They were evidently fastened by a practised hand; and I was, at length, compelled to believe that I must return as I came. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
Richard fired off his professional smile in her direction, she immediately responded with an equally practised professional grin. From Wordnik.com. [Story to Forget] Reference
It is also the case that some of the indignities we now reject – especially against women – were practised here too not so long ago. From Wordnik.com. [Good and bad news from moderate and militant Islam] Reference
I suppose you could say the Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal "harboured a grudge" against fascists, and should have practised "letting go" instead. From Wordnik.com. [This column will change your life: Forgiveness] Reference
The fracturing and reassembling for which the Wooster Group are celebrated – they've practised it on Racine and Shakespeare – is at full tilt here. From Wordnik.com. [Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carré] Reference
He strolled to immigration with feigned purpose and flicked the bunch of passport books glued together, a stack four inches thick, towards the official with practised ease. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-One] Reference
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