Adroit
adjective
Very skillful or clever; expert at something.
She was an adroit businesswoman who could have run any major company.
Often appears as...
- adroit at something
- adroit in something
adjective
Very skillful or clever; expert at something.
She was an adroit businesswoman who could have run any major company.
Often appears as...
- adroit at something
- adroit in something
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Context Nuance
Used to describe high skill levels in complex or challenging situations.
Her adroit handling of the negotiations won her widespread admiration.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
Implies admiration and often used to compliment someone's ability or performance.
The surgeon's adroit technique was crucial to the procedure's success.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Intelligence
Can refer to social or interpersonal skills, not just physical or technical skills.
He was adroit at navigating the complex office politics.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Nuance
Used to describe high skill levels in complex or challenging situations.
Her adroit handling of the negotiations won her widespread admiration.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
Implies admiration and often used to compliment someone's ability or performance.
The surgeon's adroit technique was crucial to the procedure's success.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Intelligence
Can refer to social or interpersonal skills, not just physical or technical skills.
He was adroit at navigating the complex office politics.
Pro Tip 1/3Context Nuance
Used to describe high skill levels in complex or challenging situations.
Her adroit handling of the negotiations won her widespread admiration.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
Implies admiration and often used to compliment someone's ability or performance.
The surgeon's adroit technique was crucial to the procedure's success.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Intelligence
Can refer to social or interpersonal skills, not just physical or technical skills.
He was adroit at navigating the complex office politics.
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Quote examples
Elizabeth Wurtzel
American Writer
I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it.
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Peter Kropotkin
Russian Revolutionary
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
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Stephen Kinzer
American Author
Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.
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Murray Rothbard
American Economist
In the market, the fittest are those most able to serve the consumers; in government, the fittest are those most adept at wielding coercion and/or those most adroit at making demagogic appeals to the voting public.
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Alan Greenspan
American Economist
I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn't need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are.
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Pierce Brosnan
Irish Actor
I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.
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Lawrence O'Donnell
American Journalist
Nixon's adroit use of television in 1952 was well ahead of its time.
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Elizabeth Wurtzel
American Writer
I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it.
Quote examples
Peter Kropotkin
Russian Revolutionary
The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror.
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Stephen Kinzer
American Author
Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.
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Murray Rothbard
American Economist
In the market, the fittest are those most able to serve the consumers; in government, the fittest are those most adept at wielding coercion and/or those most adroit at making demagogic appeals to the voting public.
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Alan Greenspan
American Economist
I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn't need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are.
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Pierce Brosnan
Irish Actor
I'm very confident that Nick Hornby always gets it right as a writer. He has the vernacular and passion. He is adroit and dry, and balances humor with the humanity of life.
Quote examples
Lawrence O'Donnell
American Journalist
Nixon's adroit use of television in 1952 was well ahead of its time.
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