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Definition of Skillfully
1. Adverb. With skill. "Fragments of a nearly complete jug, skillfully restored at the institute of archaeology"
Definition of Skillfully
1. Adverb. In a skillful manner; with skill. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Skillfully
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Skillfully
Literary usage of Skillfully
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"... of her nature so skillfully that the result is nothing harsh, unnatural, or
unfeminine: and has so combined the lofty and the ideal with the graceful ..."
2. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry; Famous Characters by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"... of her nature so skillfully that the result is nothing harsh, unnatural, or
unfeminine; and has so combined the lofty and the ideal with the graceful ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"Real grass, shrubs, and the like, are disposed around the central platform, and
so skillfully blended with the painted middle distance that it is almost ..."
4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1921)
"Another evasion skillfully prepared by this intelligent lady. "Question. But you
did not say that you had stopped knitting?" "Answer. I had not. ..."
5. American Painters: With One Hundred and Four Examples of Their Work Engraved by George William Sheldon (1880)
"Some cattle, very skillfully grouped, are drinking or standing in a stream, which
the heat and drought of summer have very much reduced ; beyond them lie or ..."
6. English Composition as a Social Problem by Sterling Andrus Leonard (1917)
"The teacher may well have increasingly definite purposes and guide the conversation
skillfully in ways he regards as desirable. ..."
7. John Brown Among the Quakers: And Other Sketches by Irving Berdine Richman (1894)
"... but that functionary skillfully evaded a most ungrateful and dangerous task
by going to Springdale and loudly enquiring of everybody whom he met for ..."
8. Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopaedia of Universal Authorship by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"... There mid the branches of an ancient tree Darnet and Myrtil sat and skillfully
Waked the reed's musie, told the pleasing dream Of love and ..."
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