adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In an adroit manner; with ready skill; dexterously, cleverly.
1742. Newcastle Courant, 26 June, 2/1. The Intrigue for the Ruin of the late Grand Vizir, was one of the best concerted and most adroitly executed Schemes that any of the Politicians in the City remember.
1748. Chesterfield, Lett., 163 (1792), II. 92. Do you use yourself to carve adroitly and genteely?
1817. Jas. Mill, Brit. India, II. V. v. 515. Words … so adroitly ambiguous, as in fact to evade the question.
1849. W. Irving, Mahomed & Succ., xii. (1853), 51. He used his left as adroitly as his right hand.
1850. Merivale, Rom. Emp., V. xlii. 14. Tiberius … replied adroitly, that it was not for him to choose or to reject any particular charge.
