Thesaurus / skillful
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
That’s thanks to skillful fighting, venom and lots of prey-wrapping silk.
TINY SPIDER USES SILK TO LIFT PREY 50 TIMES ITS OWN WEIGHTSUSAN MILIUSMARCH 26, 2021SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS
Coldriver did not know there was such a thing as inviting patronage by skillful display.
SCATTERGOOD BAINESCLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND
The Girondists knew to whom they were indebted for many of the most skillful parries and retaliatory blows.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
He earned thirty-six francs a month by his position to support himself, but he was neat and skillful.
REPERTORY OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE, COMPLETE, A -- ZANATOLE CERFBERR AND JULES FRANOIS CHRISTOPHE
Skillful work had made it seem a vital thing to the people, and hundreds of letters and telegrams poured in to representatives.
SCATTERGOOD BAINESCLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND
It is a powerful summary, and a skillful plea for the adoption of a policy of conciliation with the colonies of America.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTER
The races gave as many opportunities then as now for skillful driving, and required even more of strength and daring.
THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE ROMANSHAROLD WHETSTONE JOHNSTON
The skillful use of prepositions and conjunctions indicates a master of words.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTER
All the money saved by this skillful mechanic and his thrifty wife was gone, and this girl had to go to work.
THE LEAVEN IN A GREAT CITYLILLIAN WILLIAM BETTS
It was a terrific struggle; not the skillful sparring of trained fighters, but the rough and tumble battling of primitive giants.
THE SHEPHERD OF THE HILLSHAROLD BELL WRIGHT
WORDS RELATED TO SKILLFUL
- able
- accomplished
- active
- adapted
- adequate
- apt
- businesslike
- capable
- clever
- competent
- conducive
- decisive
- deft
- dynamic
- economic
- economical
- effectual
- efficacious
- energetic
- equal to
- experienced
- expert
- familiar with
- fitted
- good at
- good for
- handy
- masterly
- organized
- potent
- powerful
- practiced
- productive
- proficient
- profitable
- qualified
- ready
- saving
- shrewd
- skilled
- skillful
- systematic
- talented
- tough
- useful
- valuable
- virtuous
- well-organized
- busy
- careful
- complex
- complicated
- decorated
- detailed
- elegant
- embellished
- exact
- extensive
- extravagant
- fancy
- fussy
- high tech
- highly wrought
- imposing
- knotty
- labored
- labyrinthine
- luxurious
- many-faceted
- minute
- ornamented
- ornate
- ostentatious
- overdone
- overworked
- painstaking
- perfected
- plush
- posh
- precise
- prodigious
- refined
- showy
- skillful
- sophisticated
- studied
- thorough
- with all the extras
- with all the options
- with bells and whistles
- A-1
- accomplished
- admirable
- attractive
- capital
- certified
- champion
- choice
- choicest
- desirable
- distinctive
- distinguished
- estimable
- exceptional
- exemplary
- exquisite
- fine
- finest
- first
- first-class
- first-rate
- good
- great
- high
- incomparable
- invaluable
- magnificent
- meritorious
- notable
- noted
- outstanding
- peerless
- piked
- premium
- priceless
- prime
- select
- skillful
- sterling
- striking
- superb
- superlative
- supreme
- tiptop
- top-notch
- transcendent
- world-class
- accomplished
- accustomed
- adept
- been around
- been there
- broken in
- capable
- competent
- cultivated
- dynamite
- expert
- familiar
- having something on the ball
- in the know
- instructed
- knowing one's stuff
- knowing the score
- mature
- matured
- old
- old hand
- practical
- practiced
- pro
- professional
- qualified
- rounded
- seasoned
- skillful
- sophisticated
- sport
- tested
- the right stuff
- trained
- tried
- versed
- vet
- veteran
- well-versed
- wise
- worldly
- worldly-wise
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