Crossword-Solution: ADROITNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Adroitness | n. | The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity. |
We have 19 clues for the answer “ADROITNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| expertness | 10 answers |
| Diplo-macy | 12 answers |
| handiness | 37 answers |
| Tact | 58 answers |
| mastership | 60 answers |
| Dexterity | 68 answers |
| Readiness | 74 answers |
| aptness | 75 answers |
| Skill | 76 answers |
| Expertise | 78 answers |
| ART ___ | 80 answers |
| CRAFT ___ | 80 answers |
| Ability | 81 answers |
| Cunning | 91 answers |
| Success | 91 answers |
| Address | 92 answers |
| Facility | 95 answers |
| Grace | 96 answers |
| Approach | 101 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEART
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ADROITNESS (5)
Get up, you muddy lout, and let us kill each other with some pretension of adroitness." Eglamore rose, and, sobbing, caught up his sword and rushed toward the Duke in an agony of shame and rage.
Fairbairn said--"In those days a good millwright was a man of large resources; he was generally well educated, and could draw out his own designs and work at the lathe; he had a knowledge of mill machinery, pumps, and cranes, and could turn his hand to the bench or the forge with equal adroitness and facility.
Patience, humility, and adroitness must, in these growing black youth, replace impulse, manliness, and courage.
With an adroitness that irritated her against herself, as she looked back, he had continued to induce her to disregard their father's cautionings and to ask him to take full charge of her affairs.
Eyraud had been a Boulangist, and so may have nourished some resentment against the Minister who, by his adroitness, had helped to bring about the General's ruin.
Quotes with ADROITNESS (3)
If Stuart is a freak... it is because he has had the superhuman strength not to be defeated by this isolation. It is because he has had the almost unbelievable social adroitness to be able to fit in smoothly with an educated, soft-skinned person like myself and not make me frightened half to death. If Stuart's a freak, I salute freaks.
Deception is the natural defence of the weak against the strong, and the South used it for many years against its conquerors; to-day it must be prepared to see its black proletariat turn that same two-edged weapon against itself. And how natural this is! The death of Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner proved long since to the Negro the present hopelessness of physical defence. Political defence is becoming less and less available, and economic defence is still only partially effect…
On one hand she seems so agile, so athletic, and yet I've seen her appear so awkward that it embarrassed me. She gives the impression of a hard, worldly adroitness, and in some situations she's like an adolescent: rigid with ancient, middle class attitudes, unable to think for herself, falling back on old verities... victim of her family teaching, shocked by what shocks people, wanting what people usually want. She wants a home, a husband, and her idea of a husband is a man w…
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1972).