'deft' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use 'deft' to describe someone who is skillful or accomplished at doing something, especially something requiring physical skill or dexterity. Example: "The chef deftly cut the ingredients into carefully measured pieces."
On the one hand, Tempest's literary hip-hop is a unique, genre-defying affair that showcases its author's deft storytelling without ever resorting to showboating.
She had a deft bedside manner with audience members, and since English viewers hankering for a leftwing alternative can't vote SNP, perhaps it doesn't matter that their leader outshone her.
It was a deft deflection, which largely worked, and the little frisson over travel perks dissipated quickly enough.
That, in turn, illustrated how deft Smith is in planning this type of exercise.
I could feel deft fingers fluttering around me, fastening straps and hoisting sagging tights.
He could have been easy meat for her deft jibes, but with a powerful defence of the union, he more than survived; he might even have retrieved some Scottish votes.
A defensive line that had served them so well this season switched off to grant Daryl Murphy the time and space to tame a high ball and then prod a deft pass into the heart of the area where Freddie Sears' finish was straightforward.
That summer, observers were bewitched by the novelty of coalition, not asking awkward questions of policy, so this proved deft management.
It paints a very vivid, very human scene in a few deft strokes, and is humorous, too".
The film itself pulls off an unexpectedly deft balance too, smartening up its riotous gross-out material with sharper, tarter character comedy, as their ongoing war against the fratboys forces the older couple to admit to their own spent youth – it's a keener, rowdier reflection on the American manchild complex than any of Judd Apatow's drippy recent efforts.
He worried that his voice was strangely low and slow and wasn't deft like his heroes', but there were those who rated it.
