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What does deft mean?

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Adjective
  1. Quick and neat in action; skillful.
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It proved a deft way to celebrate a desire to innovate while staying within the bounds of tradition.
His deft touch and ability to extract humour and absurdity from the ordinary extends beyond directing movies.
Peer over your plate to see the deft hands of prep chef Samuel Ramirez shape cornmeal-molasses dough into fat hamburger buns.
He was served plenty of deliveries which were straight and full, and he duly flicked them away with deft wristwork.
The two of them wrote the show from scratch, ensured they got all the best lines and threw in deft ad-libs as required.
On the roof of the cave deft hands had painted bison, elk, horses and wild boars.

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