adroit

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: Whenever I visited Roosevelt on official business, I found a man adroit, voluble, assured, and smiling.

Modifies a noun

• tongue: The Rev. Amos had neither that flexible imagination, nor that adroit tongue.
• handling: However all these issues are overlaid with the often complex dynamics of the clients ' own individual relationships and require careful and adroit handling.
• manipulation: Rumor even has it that during periods of unnatural or undetected lawlessness " volunteers " were acquired by adroit manipulation of the reversible signs.
• management: The question of adroit management of the nuclear environment was therefore not the real issue.
• way: I have been involved in two schemes at Australian universities which have tried to grapple with the problem in a more adroit way.

Modifying Another Word

• technically: R seemed to be more distant but no less attentive, and perhaps under his veil of discretion is even more technically adroit.
• particularly: I thought that was amusing, but not particularly adroit.
• so: This proved so adroit at dodging her fork that it seemed to be both intelligent and motile.
• very: Many were also very adroit in terms of choosing a school.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Proverbs aims to show a person how to become adroit at the greatest skill of all, the skill of living.