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: accomplished with skill
a skillful treatment
skillfulness
noun
Examples of skillful in a Sentence
He is skillful at diplomacy.
an artist skillful in the use of color
the skillful manner in which the doctor and nurses treated the patient
These issues require skillful handling.
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The more success rolled, the more damage done, the more skillful the hack and so on.
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Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Powell, skillful at opaque Fed-speak, nonetheless signaled a simulative change is likely.
—Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
His actors ever game and skillful would, upon Bob’s suggestions and their imaginations, would turn their bodies into the letter G or throw up their arms like the wings of a crow and open their mouths in a silent scream….
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
The story follows Winston Smith, a skillful worker rewriting history in the Ministry of Truth, who starts to look back fondly on the days before the Party took over the region of Oceania and implemented their cult of personality devoid of free thought and individuality.
—Robert English, EW.com, 30 July 2025
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Rob Wieland, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
Powell, skillful at opaque Fed-speak, nonetheless signaled a simulative change is likely.
—Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2025
His actors ever game and skillful would, upon Bob’s suggestions and their imaginations, would turn their bodies into the letter G or throw up their arms like the wings of a crow and open their mouths in a silent scream….
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 18 Aug. 2025
The story follows Winston Smith, a skillful worker rewriting history in the Ministry of Truth, who starts to look back fondly on the days before the Party took over the region of Oceania and implemented their cult of personality devoid of free thought and individuality.
—Robert English, EW.com, 30 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for skillful
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“Skillful.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/skillful. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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