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nimbly
[ nim-blee ]
adverb
- with quick, light, easy movement:
Our daughter sits on the ground plucking dandelions, her long brown fingers nimbly weaving them into a chain.
- in a way that shows quick thinking or understanding, as in making appropriate adjustments, devising or carrying out plans, etc.:
Local governance is often flexible and community based, enabling municipalities to respond to evolving conditions more nimbly than larger and slower-moving state governments.
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- un·nim·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of nimbly1
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Example Sentences
Some of us would like it to do more with less —more nimbly, more artfully.
Nimbly Garnache stepped aside to avoid it, and moved nearer his opponent.
Digby leaped nimbly aside, and hit his right arm a blow which made it tingle from the shoulder to the tips of the fingers.
Now and then a gun was fired at the Indians, forcing them to skip nimbly behind the trees.
Hopping nimbly out of bed, he dressed himself in his European costume, seized his instrument, and began a tune.
The ponies came skipping here and there, nimbly dodging in and out between the dog-holes.
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