Usually means: Skillfully and quickly; with dexterity.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word deftly:

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  1. deftly: Merriam-Webster
  2. deftly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deftly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. deftly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Deftly, deftly: Wordnik
  6. deftly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. deftly: Wiktionary
  8. Deftly, deftly: Dictionary.com
  9. deftly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Deftly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. deftly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. deftly: Rhymezone
  13. Deftly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. deftly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. deftly: FreeDictionary.org
  16. deftly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. deftly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deftly: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a deft manner; quickly and neatly in action.

Similar:
dexterously, dextrously, adroitly, deft-handedly, defly, cleanly, neat-handedly, niftily, artfully, skillfully, more...

Opposite:
clumsily, awkwardly, ineptly, unskillfully

Types:
adroitly, dexterously, dextrously, more...

Phrases:
deftly escape from, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     pewter,     graphite,     silver,     gunmetal, more...

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Similar:
dexterously, dextrously, adroitly, deft-handedly, defly, cleanly, neat-handedly, niftily, artfully, skillfully, more...

Opposite:
clumsily, awkwardly, ineptly, unskillfully

Types:
adroitly, dexterously, dextrously, more...

Phrases:
deftly escape from, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     pewter,     graphite,     silver,     gunmetal, more...



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