Deftly is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DEFTLY in dictionary:

VERB:
• Aptly; fitly; dexterously; neatly.
ADVERB:
• DEFT, skilful
• in a way that is neatly skilful and quick in movement
• in a clever way
• with dexterity; in a dexterous manner
• in a deft manner
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• characterized by facility and skill

Words related to DEFTLY

deffly16 deft8

How to use DEFTLY in a sentence

• I wore my own hair, for I never saw the sense of a wig save for a bald man, but I had it deftly tied.
• But the stranger turned the blow right deftly and in return gave one as stout, which Robin also turned as the stranger had done.
• But the other turned the blow deftly aside, and gave back another so terrible that the Denby man went down with a groan, as though he had been smitten by lightning.
• Indeed, it is a thing only deftly to be done, even by day.
• Gripping the head of your calling-cord, you slip the tip of it deftly into the sleeve of the jack for the called person.
• Let others write what others deftly may, I aim with thought to fill my wintry day.
• Bits of butter must be so deftly introduced that even the rolling pin may be unconscious of its work.
• Since matches were scarce, he deftly made a torch of a paper from his pocket with better success.
• On his long head he has poised deftly a woven basket containing the clay with which he is to make the first brick.
• Between them, deftly cut, trimmed and sized, were blank slips of paper to the number of perhaps thirty and the value of not one cent.
• Deftly, and without haste of any sort, each man knotted a red and white spotted handkerchief across the lower half of his face, leaving only the eyes and forehead visible.
• Deftly, cautiously without sound, a half inch, an inch at a time he opened it.
• The oil stove was deftly filled by the good-hearted boy before he lifted it and the can of oil inside.
• Tom Reade caught it deftly at second, and wheeled toward first.
• No jewelled snake could shed her skin as deftly as this young maid had slipped from her shoulders the frail garment of civilization.
• Swiftly and deftly he tipped it, and the shapeless bundle slid into the open mouth awaiting it.
• He glanced at Sir Reginald as he did so, muttered a word of excuse, and deftly opened it.
• Zora beneath her apparent frankness was impenetrable, and he felt that she carefully avoided him, although she did it so deftly that he felt rather than observed it.
• Claudius almost thought it would be civil to offer to carry the little man, but when he saw how deftly Mr.
• Nay, go deftly about it, and then, when the time is ripe, strike the blow.
• The next minute Kathleen caught firm hold of the arm of old ivy and let herself down deftly and quickly to the ground.

Similar words containing FT without suffix ly and without prefix de

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