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- the ambassador showed great dexterity in his handling of the touchy situation
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- artfulness,
- artifice,
- caginess
- (also cageyness),
- canniness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deviousness,
- foxiness,
- guile,
- slickness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- subtleness,
- wiliness
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- the juggler needed lots of dexterity in order to keep all five balls in the air at the same time
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The Left Hand of (Supposed) Darkness
The Left Hand of (Supposed) Darkness
On ‘sinister,’ ‘dexterity,’ ‘gauche,’ and ‘adroit’
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The first known use of dexterity was in 1518
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