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skilfully

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Adv.1.skilfully - with skill; "fragments of a nearly complete jug, skillfully restored at the institute of archaeology"
skillfully
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skilfully skillfully (US) [ˈskɪlfəlɪ] ADV → hábilmente, con destreza
skilfully [ˈskɪlfʊli] (British) skillfully (US) adv → habilement, adroitement
ski lift n → remonte-pente m inv
skilfully, (US) skillfully
adv → geschickt; play the piano also → gewandt; paint, sculpt etc → kunstvoll
skilfully skillfully (Am) [ˈskɪlfəlɪ] adv → abilmente
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He may not indeed destroy the framework of the received legends--the fact, for instance, that Clytemnestra was slain by Orestes and Eriphyle by Alcmaeon but he ought to show invention of his own, and skilfully handle the traditional material.
The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle View in context
Bear in mind, too, that under these untoward circumstances he has to cut many feet deep in the flesh; and in that subterraneous manner, without so much as getting one single peep into the ever-contracting gash thus made, he must skilfully steer clear of all adjacent, interdicted parts, and exactly divide the spine at a critical point hard by its insertion into the skull.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
Then the wretched rabble of the Isosceles, planless and leaderless, are either transfixed without resistance by the small body of their brethren whom the Chief Circle keeps in pay for emergencies of this kind; or else more often, by means of jealousies and suspicions skilfully fomented among them by the Circular party, they are stirred to mutual warfare, and perish by one another's angles.
Flatland by Abbott, Edwin View in context
 
 
 
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