Dexterity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEXTERITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• adroitness
• skill in performing tasks, especially with the hands
• Right-handedness.
• Readiness and grace in physical activity; skill and ease in using the hands; expertness in manual acts; as, dexterity with the chisel.
• Readiness in the use or control of the mental powers; quickness and skill in managing any complicated or difficult affair; adroitness.
• adroitness in using the hands
• skill in using one's hands
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• mental skill or quickness; adroitness
• skill in using one\'s hands

Words related to DEXTERITY

dexterities19

Words that contain DEXTERITY

indexterity22 ambidexterity28

How to use DEXTERITY in a sentence

• He was a skillful and experienced pilot, handling his boat with remarkable dexterity.
• He became a typical American politician, not by force of public speaking, but by dexterity in the formation and management of a party.
• The smaller was guiding his friend along the crowded pavement with a dexterity that was plainly the outcome of a long practice.
• When I wrestled with him, and held him down, he could not have escaped, excepting by the exercise of the most consummate dexterity.
• But Sir Launcelot put aside the blow of one giant with his sword and of the other with his shield, with marvellous dexterity.
• The dexterity of experienced thieves shews, that no small degree of care and attention is bestowed on their tuition.
• This he cast far from him, with a peculiar swing and dexterity, hauling-in, and repeating the experiments, steadily and with unwearied industry.
• The dexterity of the workmen appears still more surprising after seeing the simple machines which they employ to produce their beautiful wares.
• The isar gathers the dust from the ground, and it requires some dexterity to hold it together in such a way as to envelop the whole body.
• But this instinct is an admirable sagacity and dexterity, not in the beasts, who neither do, nor can then, have time to reason, but in the superior wisdom that governs them.
• However, if I can come over here again before the time when certain cater-pillars change into chrysalies, I shall assuredly try to make use of his ability and dexterity.
• Unhappily he did not live long to enjoy the fruits of his industrious dexterity.
• In one Amrou himself was taken prisoner by the besieged, but, through the dexterity of a slave, made his escape.
• He saw Ootah, with almost superhuman dexterity, striking constantly.
• The gentlemen who were to take part in the play made their entrance in the above manner with great dexterity.
• The Indians were all skillful horsemen and fought with great dexterity.
• Men thus enriched by the dexterity of a leader, would follow of course the chief who was leading them to fortune, and become the zealous instruments of all his enterprises.
• They are sure marksmen, who hit whatever they wish, and in some parts the women also use the bow with dexterity.
• He first attacked the flag-ship of the vice-admiral Recaldo, and with such vigor and dexterity as to excite great alarm in the Spanish fleet.
• Their persons are covered with iron plate and mail, and they manage with surprising dexterity their little active steeds, which are also supplied with defensive armour.
• Don Fernando crossed his hands behind him, and together they rattled their feet on the floor with dexterity and precision, whilst the girls sang the words of the dance.
• Meanwhile, within, the clergyman had, by promptitude and dexterity, taken the chair and was opening the case against the unfortunate Jessie.
• Smith, painted on the stern of his boat, which he managed alone with considerable dexterity.
• A faster working pace is possible with a shorter day, particularly in those operations calling for physical or mental dexterity.
• As it required neither strength nor practised dexterity of manipulation, the firm intrusted it to assistants.
• I was rather struck by the prompt dexterity with which this young man pitched his fur cap at the bell, and rang it himself.
• The criminal to be executed on that occasion was a thief, already notorious in Paris for his daring and dexterity, though he had only been there a few months.
• Suddenly it darted to the hatch, unfastened and lifted it with a swift, familiar dexterity, and disappeared in the opening.
• He rolled cigarettes one after another with amazing dexterity and smoked them with half a dozen Titanic breaths.
• There has been more or less dispute as to which sex displayed greater manual dexterity.
• The weapon has been wielded with all the dexterity which long practice has conferred on a past master in craft, whether of wood or state.

Similar words containing XTER without suffix ity and without prefix de

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