practiced

[ prak-tist ]

adjective

skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
acquired or perfected through practice: a practiced English accent.

Origin of practiced

First recorded in 1560–70; practice + -ed²

A secular police state well practiced in suppressing internal challenges.
Fact-Checking the Sunday Shows: Dec. 14 | PunditFact.com | December 14, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
How the Queen feels about this remains one of the many secrets that she conceals behind her well-practiced inscrutability.
Queen Victoria’s Secret Scottish Sex Castle | Clive Irving | August 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Having been there for hours by then, I knew it was well practiced.
Patted Down by India’s Hugging Saint | Daniel Genis | July 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Fouquier Tinville here observed, alluding to the sure blow she had given, that she must be well practiced in crime.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. | Various
Patience is an admirable quality in mankind, and can be very well practiced when, one is waiting for a ship to go to sea.
Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life | Thomas Wallace Knox

The well-practiced Republican apologists exhausted their ingenuity in endeavoring to explain away the reverse.
Border and Bastille | George A. Lawrence
In a routine so well-practiced that it had become ritual, he checked over the cruiser point by point.
Eight Keys to Eden | Mark Irvin Clifton
Thorough preparations had been made and self-government was well practiced before the establishment of the republic.
The Fight For The Republic in China | Bertram Lenox Putnam Weale

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