deft
adjective/deft/
/deft/
- (of a person’s movements) quick and showing skill
- deft hands/fingers/footwork
- He finished off the painting with a few deft strokes of the brush.
- In one deft movement, he had her hand locked behind her back.
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- clever and showing skill
- her deft command of the language
Word OriginMiddle English: variant of daft, in the obsolete sense ‘meek’.
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