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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.

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On this page you'll find 37 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to dextrous, such as: deft, glib, sharp, shrewd, skillful, and sly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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