adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
fancy/deft/nifty etc footwork
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It took a bit of deft footwork to get them to agree.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
touch
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Wallace battled well till the end, but Deane looked unsettled and uninvolved, apart from a few deft touches back in defence.
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Revealing his conclusion would spoil the fun because Hitt tells his story with a deft touch and a sharp wit.
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Violet McBride, who is probably playing her last season for Portadown, displayed some deft touches .
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Professor Uitsmijter has quite a deft touch in translation.
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Its minimal size can work against it with the buttons requiring a deft touch .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The songs demonstrate Costello's deft wordplay.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All feature his full-bodied tone and deft improvisations.
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Associates describe him as a deft manipulator of the media and of the young women he turns into pop superstars.
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Combining powerful smashes with deft drop-shots, Hall beat Steve Baddeley 15-18, 15-4, 15-4 in a 66-minute final.
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Dreamy, deft and economical, it was born to prowl the airwaves.
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His work on Phylloxera is mimicked by deft strokes, as are his studies of chicken cholera.
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Our offer of riches beyond dreams still stands for those deft with pen and sharp of wit.
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Our sense of time within these television years is so deft that we can make all sorts of jokes from it.
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Thanks to deft chairmanship and bluntness, he drew from it a respectable report that won praise for its forthrightness.