Synonym: adept, expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful. Similar words: skillfully, fossil fuel, skill, skilled, unskilled labor, pilfer, malfunction, kill. Meaning: ['skɪlfʊl] adj. having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude.
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31 A non-chemical method is also possible, but requires skilful, expert handling.
32 In any case older animals may be socially more skilful.
33 We both employed local Arussi as trackers, some of whom were very skilful and all of whom were tireless.
34 The Soviet Union could affect the situation through skilful action with serious consequences for the whole strategic situation.
35 The skilful salesperson will ask for a concession in return - perhaps a less onerous delivery schedule.
36 Thanks to some very skilful hanging each of the four rooms used has a very distinctive flavour all its own.
37 A determined, skilful young actor can get an Equity card and a first job.
38 He spent long hours in the House of Commons and he was skilful at the quiet conduct of minor business.
39 Whatever some observers regarded as a blundering approach was a skilful way of navigating the dilemmas confronting him.
40 The doctor, whatever her politics and morals, had lovely skilful hands, which Phoebe could not but admire.
41 As the next section shows, the skilful use of mixed messages leads to a range of unintended and counter-productive consequences.
42 In fact it was papier-mache on which some one had done a skilful paint job.
43 With more skilful manoeuvring, Short surrounded Karpov's king's pawn and invaded with his rook.
44 Young drivers come to us for instruction in safe and skilful driving.
45 He established Swindon as one of the most skilful sides outside the top flight before a frustrating switch to Tyneside.
46 Rodin was a skilful salesman of his work, making careful use of photography in establishing and maintaining his good name.
47 Lewis Preston, its new president, must make it more skilful and more efficient.
48 Soon afterwards, the Tokugawa clan obtained supremacy under the patient and skilful Hideyori or Iyeyasu.
49 With one fierce and skilful kick of his aching foot he will mend a deep concavity in the refrigerator's flank.
50 The good restricted professional is sensitive to the development of individual pupils, an inventive teacher and a skilful class-manager.
51 All of a day to wait for the skilful of ecstasy ... she sighed.
52 Fanciful though this may sound, Blackburn is a skilful and subtle enough writer to pull it off.
53 A skilful negotiator will attempt to trade concession for concession so that ultimately an agreement which satisfies both parties is reached.
54 They also responded to the king's skilful use of propaganda to generate support for the war.
55 The most skilful players will learn to hold their score together despite the blustery conditions.
56 Sembene Ousmane is a story-teller and a skilful writer who can carry you along with the drama and the atmosphere regardless of subject.
57 In this sense they have become highly skilful at enacting such rules.
58 Above all(sentence dictionary), librarians will have to become ever more skilful managers of information resources.
59 The skilful use of a piece of interesting technology by a visually handicapped pupil can become a source of pride rather than embarrassment.
60 Finally we were told that a team had been formed but that it contained no skilful players, we remained sceptical!
More similar words: skillfully, fossil fuel, skill, skilled, unskilled labor, pilfer, malfunction, kill, kiln, ski, skip, skid, kilter, killer, killed, kill off, skirt, sulkily, luckily, skim off, skimpy, kilogram, outskirt, kilometer, antiskid, painkiller, miniskirt, skin and bones, dyskinesia, skin disease.