skilful
adjective
skilfulness
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a word derived from
skilful.
Example Sentences
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Forty years after the Black Jazz period, the long-estranged couple are recounting that absorbing story with every appearance of cordiality and plenty of their old skilfulness and spirit.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2012
But no skilfulness of a commander can avail when soldiers are determined not to fight.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various
Mrs. Challoner was far too accustomed to her daughter’s skilfulness to testify any surprise, but she at once pronounced Miss Drummond’s dress the chef-d’œuvre.
From Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey
He copied the Brothers Amati with much skilfulness.
From The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators by George Hart
There is a symmetry of proportion, a skilfulness of arrangement, and a fitness and adaptation of colors, which strike the eye with unmingled pleasure.
From A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Harvey Newcomb
