"adroit" meaning in All languages combined

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          "word": "adroitness"
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          "text": "A ſimple lad, with a whip in one hand, and the other locked in the arm of a young girl, is ſo loſt in gaping aſtoniſhment, that an adroit branch of the family of the Filches is clearing his pockets of their contents.",
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          "ref": "1829, Robert Taylor, “[Appendix:] False Representations”, in The Diegesis; being a Discovery of Origin, Evidences, and Early History of Christianity. Never before or elsewhere so Fully and Faithfully Set Forth, London: Richard Carlile, 62, Fleet Street; John Brooks, 421, Oxford Street, →OCLC, page 424",
          "text": "[W]hile the press has teemed with a thousand better modes of defending Christianity, unbelievers had been asleep all the while, and dreamed of no adroiter methods of attacking it: […]",
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          "text": "[O]ne basic economic problem defeated the ingenuity of even the adroitest Italian bankers – the balance of payments. It often happened that the exchange of commodies was so uneven that there were no funds in Bruges to settle accounts in Florence.",
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        "1": "fr",
        "2": "adret"
      },
      "expansion": "Doublet of adret",
      "name": "doublet"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "à + droit. Doublet of adret.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "adroite",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "adroits",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "adroites",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "adroit (feminine adroite, masculine plural adroits, feminine plural adroites)",
      "name": "fr-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "French 2-syllable words",
        "French adjectives",
        "French doublets",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French lemmas",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with audio links",
        "fr:Personality"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "skilful, apt, skilled (possessing skill, skilled)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "skilful",
          "skilful"
        ],
        [
          "apt",
          "apt"
        ],
        [
          "skilled",
          "skilled"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a.dʁwa/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "Fr-adroit.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ab/Fr-adroit.ogg/Fr-adroit.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Fr-adroit.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "adroit"
}