The word "dexterous" is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use this word to describe someone or something that is skillful and agile with its hands or body. For example: "The surgeon's dexterous hands made quick work of the operation."
The Guardian's Alexis Soloski praised its "sublime songs and dexterous dancing", while the New York Times critic wrote: "It weds music and movement, song and story with such exhilarating brio that you may find your own feet fidgeting under your seat before it's over".
Where other period dramas seem to spend less and less time actually accepting they're set in the past, Ripper's characters sound like Victorians, albeit profoundly poetic and imaginatively dexterous ones.
As this week's special report argues, this could change not just business, but much else besides.A number of remarkable technologies are converging: clever software, novel materials, more dexterous robots, new processes (notably three-dimensional printing) and a whole range of web-based services.
Thanks to smarter and more dexterous robots, some lights-out manufacturing is now possible.
The more mellifluous the singer, the more dexterous the harpist, the more mates he attracts.In this section Messengers in the modern world Why music?
And as they become cleverer and more dexterous, they are starting to move from factories to offices and homes.A robot is defined not by its appearance, but by how it is controlled.
Further into the future, a clever robot that is dexterous enough to unearth and carry away landmines may well be developed.
There is only one way to find out: set these people free.Davide MozzaPisa, ItalyStretching a metaphorSIR – Your article on left-handed snails referred to a "sinister minority" and "dexterous crustaceans" ("On the one hand", March 25th).
Only once did he disappoint liberals, when in 2008 the law lords ruled that the Serious Fraud Office was right, in view of Saudi threats, to ditch its inquiry into BAE Systems' arms sales to Saudi Arabia.At the Bar he was a fine judge, dexterous in argument and scrupulously fair in his rulings.
Similarly, life itself emerged as a cascade of increasing complexity, and the forking paths of evolution allow one innovation to lead to another, such as the semi-lunate carpal bone that made velociraptors more dexterous predators, but subsequently led to the evolution of winged, flying birds.
Perhaps, as president, he never encountered challenges that were fully worthy of his mettle no civil war, no world wars, no Great Depression but that was his country's good fortune, and in part his own work, for he was a surprisingly dexterous diplomat.
