Definition of Skilled

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Skilled

Having familiar knowledge united with readiness and dexterity in its application; familiarly acquainted with; expert; skillful; -- often followed by in; as, a person skilled in drawing or geometry.

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Skilled Quotations

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
Jonathan Swift

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.
John Maynard Keynes

Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.
Edward de Bono

A person who learns to juggle six balls will be more skilled than the person who never tries to juggle more than three.
Marilyn vos Savant

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.
Mikhail Bakunin

You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.
Bobby Orr

I'll always be there because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.
Michael Caine

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.
Pete Townshend

At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
Arsene Wenger

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester B. Pearson

Skilled Translations

skilled in German is bewandert, bewandt
skilled in Italian is versato
skilled in Latin is peritus, faber
skilled in Spanish is experimentado, versado
skilled in Swedish is rutinerad, yrkesutbildad, skicklig

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