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synonyms for up to snuff

  • capable
  • effective
  • efficient
  • intelligent
  • keen
  • prepared
  • responsible
  • skilled
  • smart
  • accomplished
  • adroit
  • agile
  • artful
  • au fait
  • brilliant
  • clever
  • deft
  • dexterous
  • effectual
  • equal to
  • experienced
  • expert
  • facile
  • gifted
  • ingenious
  • know backwards and forwards
  • know one's onions
  • know the ropes
  • learned
  • masterful
  • masterly
  • powerful
  • practiced
  • proficient
  • qualified
  • savvy
  • sharp
  • skillful
  • talented
  • there
  • trained
  • up to it
  • up to speed
  • with it
  • able-bodied
  • competent
  • robust
  • slim
  • strapping
  • toned
  • hale
  • muscled
  • sound
  • trim
  • well
  • fit as a fiddle
  • in good condition
  • wholesome
  • wrapped tight

antonyms for up to snuff

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  • dull
  • idiotic
  • ignorant
  • impotent
  • incapable
  • incompetent
  • ineffective
  • stupid
  • unable
  • unintelligent
  • weak
  • delicate
  • feeble
  • inept
  • infirm
  • powerless
  • useless
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        How to use up to snuff in a sentence

        What need to look to right or left when you are swallowing up free mile after mile of dizzying road?
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        Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.
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        Some weeks after, the creditor chanced to be in Boston, and in walking up Tremont street, encountered his enterprising friend.
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        In less than ten minutes, the bivouac was broken up, and our little army on the march.
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        The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.
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        Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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        I was busy loading the piece when an exclamation of surprise from one of the men made me look up.
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        Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.
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        She sat straight up in bed, and jerked her hands to her head, and screamed long and terribly.
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        A flash of surprise and pleasure lit the fine eyes of the haughty beauty perched up there on the palace wall.
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