well-tutored
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a word derived from
tutor.
tutornouna person employed to instruct another in some branch or branches of learning, especially a private instructor.
Example Sentences
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In their scramble for points, many of this season's well-tutored fives employ several different types of offense, and make split-second adjustments from one to another as the situation demands.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The well-tutored Swiss replied that she was not, but that he could get any message transmitted to her.
From The Queen's Necklace by Alexandre Dumas père
The well-tutored Puckers, dressed in faded splendour, and holding a brown-paper parcel in her hand, was waiting for her young lady at the corner of the Square.
From M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." by G.J. Whyte-Melville
The verses of Middleton are more indicative of strength than of power; they are the verses of a well-tutored youth, of commanding talents.
From The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 by James Gillman
John, like a well-tutored chemist, understood the peculiar character of the Doctor's prescriptions, which, unlike a quack's, were generally written in a plain, legible hand, without any ad captandum humbug.
From Geoffery Gambado A Simple Remedy for Hypochondriacism and Melancholy Splenetic Humours by William Henry Bunbury