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• Not because it's bad — it's a deftly rendered slice of CGI.2014 January 29, Matt Peckham, “8 Minutes of Ridiculously Beautiful The Elder Scrolls Online Cinematic Footage”, in Time, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry cringe
• His patience with her extended itself deftly, counteringly, before any move she thought to make.1997, Elizabeth Tallent, “Listen to Reason”, in The Good Housekeeping Short Story Collection, London: Arrow Books Limited, Random House UK…. From the entry counteringly
• For he slid the goldpiece deftly into the box, without touching it.1958, Harry Stephen Keeler, The Straw Hat Murders, 2ⁿᵈ Ramble House edition, Ramble House, (2004) page 15. From the entry goldpiece
• He tossed a pancake high in the air and deftly caught it in the pan.1937, Norman W. Caldwell, Fangs of the Sea, page 53. From the entry pancake-maker
• Kamiit help feet deftly navigate the slip of the ice, the crunch of the snow, and the depths of the drifts.2018, Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth, And Other Stories (2023), pages 36-37. From the entry kamiit
• She fitted the ignition-key into the switch deftly.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 283. From the entry ignition key
• “By combining these colorful elements with authority—always deftly concealed and vividly nonpedantic—Encore hopes to serve a vast new field.”1933 April 1, “New Musical Magazine Strikes Original Note”, in The Chattanooga News, volume XLV, number 235, Chattanooga, Tenn., page 11. From the entry nonpedantic
• Bridget puckered up her face and cried as her arms were deftly taken out of the sleeves of her daygown.1911, Hugh de Sélincourt, chapter I, in A Fair House, London; New York: John Lane Company, page 13. From the entry daygown
• The vision of a salon was miraged before her, with herself in the middle deftly manipulating the destinies of a nation.1901, A. E. W. Mason, Ensign Knightley and Other Stories. From the entry mirage
• The kamuning leaves had been deftly arranged to form the name REGINA on the altar, and right below were the words REQUIESCANT IN PACE.2017, Macario Pineda, Love in the Rice Fields: And Other Short Stories. From the entry kamuning
• He thought for a moment as he deftly rolled the paper and tobacco into a durry, licked the edge and stuck it down.2007, Kevin Hallewell, Woop Woop, page 151. From the entry durry
• Observing that the Christ Child’s nose was running, she deftly wiped it; then she held the handkerchief in place, while instructing him to “blow.”1989, John Irving, chapter 5, in A Prayer for Owen Meany, New York: Ballantine, published 1997, page 195. From the entry instruct
• Deftly interweaving plot, narration, and theme, microdramas create a special kind of fiction which often literally depicts the transformations which the other three only imply.1980, Ray Broadus Browne, Rituals and Ceremonies in Popular Culture, →ISBN, page 333. From the entry microdrama
• He must also be conscious of the safety of fellow workers below him as he deftly maneuvers a 75-ton vertical ramrod and iron-jawed grab bucket.1953 May, Dwight Boyer, “Giant Jaws Unload Ore Ship”, in H[enry] H[aven] Windsor, Jr., editor, Popular Mechanics, volume 99, number 5…. From the entry legman
• Then he deftly spat the cigarette into a strawless portion of the floor, where it glowed for a few seconds before it went out.1921, Christopher Morley, Modern essays. From the entry strawless
• First she had put her house in order, working deftly, her pretty hair pinned up in a towel—all in order but Peter's room.1914, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 13, in The Street of Seven Stars. From the entry put one's house in order
• We bided a moment as the push we were part of moved forward and took the opportunity to slip deftly back through it, thus shabbing off from our prey.2017 February 23, Jake Arnott, The Fatal Tree, Sceptre, →ISBN. From the entry shab
• So Chatterton, by breaking his apprenticeship, deftly steered a course between the Bristolian and the Rowleyan voices: between 'Matrimony he shall not contracct' and 'an hollie Preeste unnmarriageabil'.2017, Andrew Radford, Romantic Echoes in the Victorian Era. From the entry Rowleyan
• Conservative Leader Stephen Harper tried to change the channel on a campaign of distractions Wednesday as he deftly neutralized the Afghan mission as an election issue.2008 September 10, “Harper’s Fresh Commitment on Afghan Pullout Neutralizes War as Election Issue”, in The Guardian (Canadian Press)…. From the entry change the channel
• Rashid gave his sister a staunch, comforting hug and deftly slipped, like a reverse pickpocket, several bills of money into the un-protesting pocket of her gown.2004, Abraham B. Yehoshua, Hillel Halkin, The Liberated Bride, page 216. From the entry reverse pickpocket
• He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes ("Three blind eunuchs"), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kenneled people.1976, Choice - Volume 13, Issues 8-12, page 1300. From the entry epithalamium
• "Playing it pear-shaped" was a favourite expression of Jock's; it seemed to mean deftly turning a situation to one's own advantage; seizing a favorable opportunity: Boxing Clever.[1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Mortdecai's Endgame (Mortdecai; 1), Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 180. From the entry play it pear-shaped
• This is a show about light and dark, and as deftly as it mimics the glaring neon of Reaganite consumer culture, it tweaks the conspiracy theories blooming in the shadows.2019 July 4, Sophie Gilbert, “The American Paranoia of Stranger Things 3”, in The Atlantic. From the entry Reaganite
• Matt Damon, playing an assassin without a cause, gets to show off some very deftly timed martial-arts moves, flipping his limbs around with the slashy percussive precision of ninja nunchakus.2002 June 21, Owen Gleiberman, “The Bourne Identity”, in Entertainment Weekly, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2011. From the entry slashy

Meaning of deftly

1. adverb In a deft manner; quickly and neatly in action.

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How do you use deftly in a sentence?

Deftly is used as an adverb. For example: “For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into plumpness so that the head might have a better pose.”

What is a short sentence with deftly?

“She fitted the ignition-key into the switch deftly.”

What does deftly mean?

Deftly means in a deft manner; quickly and neatly in action.