Crossword-Solution: DEXTEROUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dexterous | a. | Ready and expert in the use of the body and limbs; skillful and active with the hands; handy; ready; as, a dexterous hand; a dexterous workman. |
| Dexterous | a. | Skillful in contrivance; quick at inventing expedients; expert; as, a dexterous manager. |
| Dexterous | a. | Done with dexterity; skillful; artful; as, dexterous management. |
We have 34 clues for the answer “DEXTEROUS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| HANDLING things neatly | 4 answers |
| masterly | 25 answers |
| specialising | 37 answers |
| certificated | 38 answers |
| Nimble | 41 answers |
| authorised | 42 answers |
| Expedite. | 48 answers |
| Deft | 50 answers |
| artiste | 50 answers |
| Versatile | 51 answers |
| Facile | 53 answers |
| teaching | 54 answers |
| Canny | 56 answers |
| Adroit | 56 answers |
| cultivated | 56 answers |
| Accom-plished | 57 answers |
| Glib | 57 answers |
| CULTURED ___ | 57 answers |
| suited | 57 answers |
| Specialist | 59 answers |
| Proficient | 60 answers |
| Skilled | 62 answers |
| Adept | 63 answers |
| Slim __ | 64 answers |
| Agile | 65 answers |
| professional | 67 answers |
| Trained | 67 answers |
| Handy | 67 answers |
| Capable | 68 answers |
| Speedy | 68 answers |
| skilful | 69 answers |
| Experienced | 71 answers |
| Neat | 72 answers |
| Simple | 106 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TAREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEXTEROUS (5)
Bathsheba, after throwing a glance here, a caution there, and lecturing one of the younger operators who had allowed his last finished sheep to go off among the flock without re-stamping it with her initials, came again to Gabriel, as he put down the luncheon to drag a frightened ewe to his shear-station, flinging it over upon its back with a dexterous twist of the arm.
Between sunset and starlight this dexterous machine must have made more than a hundred such bars out of the crude clay, and the mound of bluish dust rose steadily until it topped the side of the pit.
That day he accompanied a party of warriors to the nearby plains on a great hunt, and so dexterous did they find this white man with their own crude weapons that another bond of respect and admiration was thereby wrought.
Strong as a lion—witness the blow that bent that poker! Six foot three in height, active as a squirrel, dexterous with his fingers, finally, remarkably quick-witted, for this whole ingenious story is of his concoction.
The creature fell stunned, and the force of its fall brought it within the reach of dexterous hunter’s grasp.
Quotes with DEXTEROUS (3)
No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.
I had learned that a dexterous, opposable thumb stood among the hallmarks of human success. We had maintained, even exaggerated, this important flexibility of our primate forebears, while most mammals had sacrificed it in specializing their digits. Carnivores run, stab, and scratch. My cat may manipulate me psychologically, but he'll never type or play the piano.
Having it all is just too much hassle. I'm not every-woman. I'm a working woman. And I'm not entirely sure I see the oint of being as dexterous in the kitchen as I am at my desk. If Mr. Y is perfectly satisfied with pre-packaged sushi every night, then far be it from me to raise his hopes with all sorts of homey behavior. The secret, I have discovered, is to manage expectations. If he doesn't expect it, then he's hardly going to be disappointed to discover he may never again …
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Appears in: LAT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1999).