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FRIDAY, JANUARY 3

Adroit

[ə-DROYT]Part of speech: adjective

Origin: french, 17th century

• Showing skillfulness or cleverness in handling a situation
• Dexterous or nimble with the use of hands

Using Adroit in a sentence

• It was an adroit move on Napoleon's part to gag the secretary.
• Illya took the vial and hid it in the woman's hat, a swift and adroit decision from the agent.

More to it...

Adroit can have a physical or a mental usage to describe being quick and skillful. Having the perfect solution to a problem, or having useful dexterity in motion are both uses for this word. The adverb adroitly describes something done in an adroit manner.

The translation of the French word “adroit” is skillful. There’s also a German cousin, “adrett,” meaning neat and tidy.