skilful
Americanadjective
adjective
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possessing or displaying accomplishment or skill
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involving or requiring accomplishment or skill
Other Word Forms
- skilfully adverb
- skilfulness noun
Example Sentences
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Seb Daly/Sportsfile: For the uninitiated, this is hurling - an Irish sport that is incredibly fast, very skilful and, as this image shows, highly physical.
From BBC
"Can we be skilful enough and brave enough to be better than Australia in those big moments."
From BBC
"Tommy does so many things so well, and I think he looked physical, fast, skilful, he took the ball in the air beautifully and was in the right place," Northampton boss Phil Dowson said.
From BBC
"They have got lots of amazing bowlers so I'm sure they'll draft someone in who is very skilful," Brook told BBC Sport.
From BBC
It is funny because I am not really a skilful player, I more knock it and run.
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