Synonym: adept, clever, expert, handy, proficient, skillful. Similar words: master, mastery, mastered, masterful, taskmaster, ringmaster, headmaster, postmaster. Meaning: ['mæstə(r)lɪ /'mɑːs-] 
adj. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill.
adj. having or revealing supreme mastery or skill. 
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1. His concealment of his true motives was masterly.
2. The book was hailed as a masterpiece/as masterly.
3. Malcolm Hebden gives a masterly performance.
4. He handled the subject in a masterly way.
5. Her handling of the situation was masterly.
6. The artist's use of contrast is masterly.
7. She gave a masterly performance as Kate in 'The Taming of the Shrew'.
8. He gave a masterly display in round one of the World Chess Championship.
9. McGinniss writes in a masterly fashion.
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10. These masterly cantatas date from different periods in Bach's life.
11. Once again Gwyne Howell was masterly in the title role.
12. The Schumann Fantasia in C is a masterly work written in homage to Beethoven.
13. It will take a masterly spin doctor to conjure upbeat images from a bleak Kansas youth.
14. He handled the many questions in masterly fashion, particularly the probing questions from Cocello.
15. The complex decoration was restored with masterly skill by the sculptor Simon Verity.
16. A masterly set, bringing years of rocking experience to a daring range of tunes.
17. His grasp of international realities was masterly.
18. This is a masterly piece of work.
19. The work was done masterly.
20. This is a masterly conception really.
21. We like the masterly pencil of Rembrandt.
22. You certainly fooled the public in a masterly fashion.
23. His handling of the meeting was masterly.
24. The author eventually picks up the various threads of the plot and weaves them into a masterly conclusion.
25. He was a brilliant improviser with a dry wit and a masterly sense of timing.
26. The Council was funded by central and local government, its statements were often masterly.
27. No philosopher has done more to disown the idea that his writings embody some kind of masterly or authoritative wisdom.
28. It is a short step from here to the dramatic parallelism associated with a masterly speech maker.
29. There was, it seemed, nothing more that they could do here, in the face of this masterly inactivity.
30. I could not but highly plume myself on my masterly judgement in getting rid of Bartleby.
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