dexterity
noun
skill or adroitness in using the hands or body; agility.
dexterities
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pluralof dexterity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The crusty paint on ragged burlap, the blurred and bulbous shapes, can only be made to look tragic within the context of Klee's earlier dexterities.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has begun and ended in exhibiting the dexterities of individuals, and conventionalities of systems.
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin
I was already fifteen years in the country, and fifteen years her inferior in those civilized dexterities.
From The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon
In all the feats and dexterities of the swimmer’s art, Eiulo far outdid the rest of us, moving through the water with the ease, rapidity, and gracefulness of a fish.
From The Island Home by Dalziel
The dexterities of subtle logic rarely stir the hearts of the people, or convince them.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike
