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dextrous

/dek-struhs/US // ˈdɛk strəs //UK // (ˈdɛkstrəs) //

敏锐的,敏锐,灵敏的,敏锐的人

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : dexterous.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inslick

Examples

  • His style is quick, nervous, often slangy; he is wonderfully dextrous in hitting just the right word or phrase.

  • For, indeed, if the Infant govern the Nurse, what dextrous practice on the Nurse's part will not be necessary!

  • As handsome as Pierce, as affable as McKinley, he was a more experienced and dextrous politician than either.

  • The taster was to avoid, by means of some dextrous management, the taking of any portion of the fatal ingredients himself.

  • He caught the right, or knife hand, but the big fellow was as dextrous as he, even if he didn't look capable of such fast action.