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adjective

Skillful adj.

Discerning; reasonable; judicious; cunning. (Obs.) "Of skillful judgment."

Possessed of, or displaying, skill; knowing and ready; expert; well-versed; able in management; as, a skillful mechanic; often followed by at, in, or of; as, skillful at the organ; skillful in drawing. "And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skillful of lamentations to wailing."

Synonyms: Expert; skilled; dexterous; adept; masterly; adroit; clever; cunning.

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"Skillful" Quotes from Famous Books

... vague hope was in our minds when we started the Hull-House Cooperative Coal Association, which led a vigorous life for three years, and developed a large membership under the skillful advice of its one paid officer, an English workingman who had had experience in cooperative societies at "'ome." Some of the meetings of the association, in which people met to consider together ...

— Twenty Years At Hull House • Jane Addams

... better the patient grew worse, and for days life was despaired of. The most skillful medical treatment, and the most careful nursing scarcely saved his life. And even after the imminent danger was over, it was weeks before he was able to be lifted from the bed ...

— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth

... being dragged down the hill. As he looked below, he realized that his companion was right. The man was doomed unless they interfered. Already skillful archers were pausing to shoot and their arrows fell dangerously ...

— Triple Spies • Roy J. Snell

... the choicely prepared and preserved sheets of paper is handed over to the superintendent of the printing office. This office is among the inner buildings of the Bank of France, and is governed by very rigorous rules in all things. The operatives are all picked men, skillful, active, and silent. The sheets, the ink, and the matrixes of the plates are kept securely under lock and key until actually wanted. The printing is effected by steam-worked presses. The ink is blue, and its composition known only to a few ...

— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

... in proportion as the physician is more skillful, by so much he gives less medicine, and relies more on imagination, nature, and, above all, regimen and nursing. Here is a story in point. There was an old gentleman in Paris, who sold a famous eye-water, and made much gain thereby. ...

— The Humbugs of the World • P. T. Barnum

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