Crossword-Solution: DEFTNESS 8 letters, 77 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Deftness n. The quality of being deft.

We have 77 clues for the answer “DEFTNESS”

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Magician's asset 1 answer
Adroitness 27 answers
handicraft 29 answers
knightliness 35 answers
aristae 36 answers
valiance 36 answers
superior ability 37 answers
intrepidity 38 answers
prowess 38 answers
Valour 39 answers
Virility 40 answers
Heroics 41 answers
emprise 41 answers
heroism 42 answers
chivalry 42 answers
Fearlessness. 49 answers
marriageability 50 answers
Bravery 52 answers
nubility 56 answers
acceptability 56 answers
Feat 56 answers
sufficiency 57 answers
appropriateness 57 answers
pertinence 57 answers
eligibility 58 answers
admissibility 58 answers
seemliness 58 answers
membership 58 answers
Participation 58 answers
generalship 59 answers
endowments 59 answers
Admittance 60 answers
good match 60 answers
propriety 60 answers
inclusiveness 60 answers
mastership 60 answers
strong point 64 answers
Inclusion 66 answers
adeptness 66 answers
Endowment 66 answers
Dexterity 68 answers
Wherewithal 68 answers
Vocation 68 answers
Proficiency 69 answers
handiwork 70 answers
Talent 71 answers
Competence 72 answers
willingness 73 answers
competency 73 answers
Forte 74 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEFTNESS (5)

She turned the little figures in her fingers with a wonderful lightness and deftness, painting the chickens Naples yellow, the elephants blue gray, the horses Vandyke brown, adding a dot of Chinese white for the eyes and sticking in the ears and tail with a drop of glue.
McTeague Frank Norris 2006
Presently a little girl, not certainly over twelve years, paddled out in the smallest little canoe and handled it with all the deftness of an old voyageur.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
Lily had no desire that they should recognize any social difference in her; but she had hoped to be received as their equal, and perhaps before long to show herself their superior by a special deftness of touch, and it was humiliating to find that, after two months of drudgery, she still betrayed her lack of early training.
The house of Mirth Edith Wharton 1995
His speech was English enough to the ear, it was true, but it was the considered English of a book, and its phrases had a deftness which was hardly native.
The Market-Place Harold Frederic 2008
Her hair blew in the wind with changes of colour; her garments moulded her with the accuracy of sculpture; the ends of her shawl fluttered about her ear and were caught in again with an inimitable deftness.
St. Ives Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

Quotes with DEFTNESS (2)

Do Engineers have stories, Jack?" he asked. "What?" Jack said, without moving." Stories. Myths. Things to keep the boredom out on a long shift.""I think they play cards, mostly," Jack answered. It was a lie, but he told it with surprising deftness; not a waver in his voice or a hesitation in his words. Only the tightening of his shoulders told Ellis he was lying.
Sam Starbuck The Dead Isle
Allowing ourselves to become pure point of view, we hang in midair over the city. What we see now is a gigantic metropolis waking up. Commuter trains of many colors move in all directions, transporting people from place to place. Each of those under transport is a human being with a different face and mind, and at the same time each is a nameless part of the collective identity. Each is simultaneously a self-contained whole and a mere part. Handling this dualism of theirs ski…
Haruki Murakami After Dark
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Used 3 times in crossword archives (1980–2017).