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What is the adjective for dextrous?

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dexterous
  1. Skillful with one's hands.
  2. Skillful in some specific thing.
  3. Agile; flexible; able to move fluidly and gracefully.
  4. (figuratively, archaic) Skilled at argumentation; mentally skillful.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Byron proved a dexterous carpenter, making few errors even in his earliest days as an apprentice.”
      “The operations of Bunsen rather resemble the manipulation of the balance sheet of an insolvent company by a dexterous accountant.”
      “A sense of fear and threat of the unknown are conjured up with a dexterous use of language and word play.”
dextrous
  1. (chiefly Britain) Alternative spelling of dexterous.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Yet he makes up for these frail qualities with his heightened intelligence and dextrous ability to climb tall trees.”
      “His rise to local prominence was due to the dextrous performance of magic on the altars of his church and elsewhere.”
      “And, of course, if you've been expecting an email typed by my very own dextrous fingers, it'll be with you shortly.”
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