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adjective

Skillful adj.

Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. (Obs.) "Of skillful judgment."

Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing. "And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing."

Synonyms: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit; clever; cunning.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... deserved the patronage of the Queen. Keysar described the Blackfriars Children whom he had reorganized as "a company of the most expert and skillful actors within the realm of England, to the number of eighteen or twenty persons, all or most of them, trained up in that service in the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth for ten years together."[533] And to these, as I have pointed out, it seems likely that the best members of the ...

— Shakespearean Playhouses - A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration • Joseph Quincy Adams

... heathen go astray, speaking lies as soon as they are born. In China a mother will give her boy a reward for the best falsehood that he can tell. Beginning so early, and regarding it such a fine thing to tell wrong stories, they become skillful in falsehoods. Some parents in Christian America are very careless in this matter. It made my heart ache one day when I saw a lady in a street car trying to keep her little boy awake by telling him that, if he went to sleep, that ...

— Children's Edition of Touching Incidents and Remarkable Answers to Prayer • S. B. Shaw

... of secretary of the treasury was the most important of all. Everything pertaining to the finances of the country was in confusion, and needed a skillful hand in re-arranging and systematizing the inharmonious and incoherent fiscal machinery, so as to ascertain the actual resources of the treasury, and to adopt measures for restoring the credit of the country upon ...

— Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. • Benson J. Lossing

... I have acquired a gizzard.' With that he took a great piece of blanquette de veau and to all appearances swallowed it whole without changing his expression. I choked so I had to leave the table and I believe Mrs. Pace, to this day, thinks that by a skillful legerdemain I swallowed the veal! Anyhow, Bobby ate to suit ...

— Molly Brown's Orchard Home • Nell Speed

... the oar. Although he was not as skillful as Ike, he did well, and the boat sped on upon the deep bosom of the Kentucky. The work was good for Harry. It made his blood flow once more in a full tide and he ...

— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler

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