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nimbly

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nim·ble  (nmbl)
adj. nim·bler, nim·blest
1. Quick, light, or agile in movement or action; deft: nimble fingers. See Synonyms at dexterous.
2. Quick, clever, and acute in devising or understanding: nimble wits.

[Middle English nemel, from Old English nmel, quick to seize and numol, quick at learning; see nem- in Indo-European roots.]

nimble·ness n.
nimbly adv.
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Adv.1.nimbly - in a nimble or agile manner; with quickness and lightness and ease; "nimbly scaling an iron gate"- Charles Dickens; "leaped agilely from roof to roof"

nimbly
adverb
1. agilely, lightly, easily, smartly, briskly, gracefully, deftly, skilfully, spryly, proficiently, dexterously Sabrina jumped nimbly out of the van.
2. smartly, sharply, alertly, readily, quick-wittedly The head of Quebec's Treasury Board has negotiated nimbly with the trade unions.
Translations
nimbly [ˈnɪmblɪ] ADV
1. [jump, skip] → ágilmente; [dance] → con ligereza
2. [stitch, fasten] → con destreza
nimbly [ˈnɪmbli] adv [jump, move, leap] → agilement, avec agilité
nimbly
adv work, respondflink; danceleicht(füßig); jump, climb, stepgelenkig, behände (geh); her fingers moved nimblyihre Finger bewegten sich leicht und flink
nimbly [ˈnɪmblɪ] advagilmente
nimbly [ˈnɪmblɪ] advagilmente


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At that hour the clear-voiced nymphs are with him and move with nimble feet, singing by some spring of dark water, while Echo wails about the mountain-top, and the god on this side or on that of the choirs, or at times sidling into the midst, plies it nimbly with his feet.
While they were talking, Robin had been nimbly changing clothes with the old woman, through the window, and in a jiffy he stood forth complete, even to the spindle and twine.
By thy advice the heavy, unread, folio lump, which long had dozed on the dusty shelf, piecemealed into numbers, runs nimbly through the nation.
 
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