skillfully

In a skillful manner; with skill.

Adverb

  1. In a skillful manner; with skill.
    • On Sundays he mounted the pulpit instead of black bare bones, and as a preacher he drew the fangs of Satan with his spiritual pullikins, almost as skillfully as he did the teeth of his brother sinners on week days, with...

Origin

From Middle English skilfully, skylfully, skilfulliche, equivalent to skillful + -ly.

Forms

more skillfully most skillfully skilfully

Synonyms

handily

Derived

unskillfully