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
So next day, Lemoyne, deploying his natural graces and his dramatic dexterities, drew away the curtain.
From Bertram Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller
Works of J. Linnell and S. Palmer.of study, yet unappreciated by the public, because what they do is unrecommended by dexterities of handling.
From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin
Nothing more salutary for Irene Derwent than this sojourn with persons whom she in every way respected—with whom there was not the least temptation to exhibit her mere dexterities.
From The Crown of Life by George Gissing
Art, accordingly, means every regulated operation or dexterity whereby we pursue ends which we know beforehand; and it means nothing but such operations and dexterities.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
