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
He turned mere personal defence and retaliation into an occasion for a lofty enforcement of constitutional principles, and this, too, with a relevancy and pertinence of consummate skilfulness.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" by Various
I was much surprised at the skilfulness of his play, and remarked that I thought it something singular that he "should there find any one to keep him so well in hand."
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. by Various
The Khojur is in reality a sort of religious chief, whose power over the people depends entirely on his skilfulness and sagacity.
From Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 by F. R. Wingate
She reverted to the question of the Shakespear Dinners Society and now with a kind of large skilfulness involved Mrs. Sawbridge in her appeal.
From The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
