Dextrous [adjective]
Definition of Dextrous:
smart, clever
Synonyms of Dextrous:
● Glib
● Sly
● Deft
● Skillful
● Smooth
● Shrewd
● Sharp
● Knowing
● Wise
● Quick
● Adroit
● Cagey
● Canny
● Foxy
● Specious
● Unctuous
● Urbane
Opposite/Antonyms of Dextrous:
Sentence/Example of Dextrous:
His style is quick, nervous, often slangy; he is wonderfully dextrous in hitting just the right word or phrase.
For, indeed, if the Infant govern the Nurse, what dextrous practice on the Nurse's part will not be necessary!
As handsome as Pierce, as affable as McKinley, he was a more experienced and dextrous politician than either.
The taster was to avoid, by means of some dextrous management, the taking of any portion of the fatal ingredients himself.
He caught the right, or knife hand, but the big fellow was as dextrous as he, even if he didn't look capable of such fast action.
The organ that he found suits a low cunning and dextrous character when the head lacks elevation.
The clever, dextrous, irresistibly charming fellow had not a crown in his purse.
Cigole managed to baffle the most dextrous efforts and the most delicate contrivances of Brandon.
In these feats, they are far more dextrous than the white civilians.
Even the most dextrous and experienced smiths were baffled in their attempts to produce an exact counterfeit.