SKILLFULLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does skillfully mean? 

• SKILLFULLY (adverb)
  The adverb SKILLFULLY has 1 sense:

1. with skill

  Familiarity information: SKILLFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SKILLFULLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With skill

Synonyms:

skilfully; skillfully

Context example:

fragments of a nearly complete jug, skillfully restored at the institute of archaeology

Pertainym:

skillful (having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude)

 Context examples 

You are wiser now, able to spot bargains, and can negotiate more skillfully for yourself.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The results shows that the trap was skillfully baited.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nobody knew where the evening went to, for Hannah skillfully abstracted the babies at an early hour, nodding like two rosy poppies, and Mr. Laurence went home to rest.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The parlor struck her as looking uncommonly shabby, but without stopping to sigh for what she had not, she skillfully made the best of what she had, arranging chairs over the worn places in the carpet, covering stains on the walls with homemade statuary, which gave an artistic air to the room, as did the lovely vases of flowers Jo scattered about.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)