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/dɛkstˈɛrəti/ /dɛkstˈɛrɪti/ Listen

noun

Dexterity n.

Right-handedness.

Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel. "In youth quick bearing and dexterity."

Readiness in the use or control of the mental powers; quickness and skill in managing any complicated or difficult affair; adroitness. "His wisdom... was turned... into a dexterity to deliver himself." "He had conducted his own defense with singular boldness and dexterity."

Synonyms: Adroitness; activity; nimbleness; expertness; skill; cleverness; art; ability; address; tact; facility; aptness; aptitude; faculty. See Skill.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dexterity" Quotes from Famous Books

... man of vanity when he never complained of criticism and never solicited praise? Was it on account of some of his tastes, particularly the importance he attached to his superiority in boyish games, in bodily exercises, on those which showed dexterity in swimming, fencing, shooting? But all these tastes were as manly as they were innocent. The really trifling tastes common to the youth of his rank and country ...

— My Recollections of Lord Byron • Teresa Guiccioli

... combatants brought all their warrior skill into requisition. Challenge after challenge was given and taken with equal confidence. The impression on the warrior spectators was exciting; admiration of such unexampled dexterity gradually increased, finally swelling into sounds that denoted lively opposition in sentiment, when suddenly, with an ominous flourish of his bow, as it fell at the feet of Great Oak, Black Snake with a single bound stood in front of the Chiefs. ...

— Birch Bark Legends of Niagara • Owahyah

... ideal picture, strictly adherent to local colour and conditions, of an ancient city prolonging its vitality into the present and future by providing a very high form of training for its citizens, a training not of intellect only, but of the senses, of manual dexterity, of imagination, of Republican sympathy—a training in which "laborious inacquaintance with dead languages," infusing into the few touched by it a tincture of caste and militarism, gives way to comprehensive study of the evolution of ...

— Civics: as Applied Sociology • Patrick Geddes

... withdrew, congratulating himself on his dexterity in having saluted the stranger ...

— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter

... all the machinations of the Jacobites had been carried on with secrecy and dexterity, but now was the time for action and decision. To aid the cause, it was considered expedient that some one of known fidelity should be sent to Amsterdam, where the projects of William might be discovered more easily than in England: for, as he communicated with the States General, ...

— Snarley-yow - or The Dog Fiend • Frederick Marryat

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