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[flaming-tyger.livejournal.com]

adroit-adjective [uh-droit]
1. expert or nimble in the use of the hands or body.
2. cleverly skillful, resourceful, or ingenious

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/adroit

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[(Anonymous)]

Let's use it in a sentence!!!

"omg last night i was with this guy and we got freaky and he was soooo adriot. it felt sooo good"

:)

[mystic-tera.livejournal.com]

lol

[midniterose63.livejournal.com]

You might want to correct this word ... the correct spelling is "adroit."

I'm enjoying this blog a lot! Thank you for taking the time to do it each day! (Have you considered tossing in a weekly vocabulary quiz? LOL! That would serve us masochists right!)

[flaming-tyger.livejournal.com]

Thanks for pointing out the typo.
I haven't considered a weekly vocab quiz, but I'll think about it. Although it would probably end up being a bi-weekly/monthly vocab quiz.

[moroselycontent.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. . . I'll spell it right next time. . . I just like using new words in bad sentences. I would say it all started in 7th grade when there was a word of the day and I got tired of normal boring sentences.

[sweetconcord.livejournal.com]

"A droit" in french means "on the right," where as "a gauche" means "on the left."

The origins of the terms adroit and gauche (gauche meaning awkward or unfashionable) came about as a result of the historic trend that right-handedness was preferred over left-handedness.

[poop-on-a-stick.livejournal.com]

I ADORE your icon. Hahaha

"Hi, I'm wooferd Brimmy."

[sweetconcord.livejournal.com]

Icon love! I quite like yours as well...

[nihilisticsquee.livejournal.com]

yeah. my first thought was "on the right" too, and now I'm pronouncing it with a french accent. :(
is it like, "uh dwought" or is the "r" pronounced regularly? and is the "oi" like "oi! oi! oi!" or "o-i" ugh.

[fooltothink.livejournal.com]

Thats what I thought is stemmed from. Rock on.

[prototypical]

Is it bad that I've already known most of the words I've seen since joining this community?

And here's a sentence - C-3PO is an adroit android.

[strange1andie.livejournal.com]

nah, I have too.

[dentelle-noir.livejournal.com]

No, that's a good sign, because it means that you have a really extensive vocabulary (although not perfect because you don't know them all) and because it means that the words chosen here are not SO far off into nobody-understands-this-land that you could use them and not sound too pompous.
...that's MY take on it anyway...(*mumble* I haven't known most of the words...*mumble*)

[flaming-tyger.livejournal.com]

...yeah, mostly these words get picked because I see them somewhere and have no idea what they mean.

[pattanesca.livejournal.com]

yes, i wanted to say that too. but i guess it's okay.

[eud3mon.livejournal.com]

Is it weird that I knew maladroit before adroit? XD
It means clumsy.

[rainbow-yarn.livejournal.com]

this word is used in one of my favorite movies, The Great Race. Good word.

[flggnmllyrmnsdk.livejournal.com]

Ha! You <i> and then </b>!

Hilarity ensues.

[rainbow-yarn.livejournal.com]

well, crap, I did. XD I do that all the time, but it's usually in posts where I can fix it... XD