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English
Etymology
From Middle English skilfully, skylfully, skilfulliche, equivalent to skillful + -ly.
Adverb
skillfully (comparative more skillfully, superlative most skillfully)
- In a skillful manner; with skill.
1867, Leigh Burton, American Journal of Dental Science, page 180:On Sundays he mounted the pulpit instead of black bare bones, and as a preacher he drew the fangs of Satan with his spiritual pullikins, almost as skillfully as he did the teeth of his brother sinners on week days, with his metallic ones.
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