skilful BrE
skillful AmE

He was also said to have long and skilful fingers.

At the end of the day, there is nothing skilful about spending Community money.

It will bring back some smaller, skilful men to the top level.

The most skilful surgeons in the world were at work on him.

He had asked for the names of officers, and wanted to know how skilful they were.

He was a good shot and a most skilful fisherman.

In any case older animals may be socially more skilful.

Many countries are impressed by their style of plan and skilful players.

He was skilful on the ball with good movement and shooting ability.

I had never realized how skilful she was at sewing.

He was skilful at landscapes, and painted with the left hand.

He can be seen to embrace new technology but uses it in his skilful and personal way.

Now you are less skilful than I, so at no time try to move to my defence.

The first step in the campaign was a skilful stratagem.

He kicked the ball from one foot to the other, trying to look skilful.

Let us explain more clearly what is meant by skilful handling.

Useful and skilful industry is the soul of an active life.

Buying anything for the best price is a matter of skilful negotiation.

If a player has the ability, they will be able to perform skilful turns.

They are also skilful in their deployment of famous names.

They are very skilful in their treatment of wounds, and many diseases.

Good men, strong and brave, skilful beyond the dreams of most soldiers.

They're cheap, skilful and speak better English than some natives.

"When the wind is in the north, The skilful fisher goes not forth."

Not even a hawk could have been so effortlessly skilful.

And the other side had made very skillful use of them.

To show me how skillful you are in such an important thing?

And he played his special role in the town with a skillful hand.

He had ever been the most skillful of us at this.

But after that he went ahead and let things happen under his skillful hands.

The Bush people do seem to be more skillful at public relations.

He is also a skillful writer who has done his research.

"Very skillful indeed, and our people seem to love their music."

He is skillful enough to make the reader feel the same way.

How skillful is he, really, at winning people to his point of view?

He was, to say the least, very skillful and determined.

He had been a skillful actor playing out his role too.

However, she may be the most skillful fighter of her time.

If your son Jack were now put into the hands of some skillful men, he might be brought to speak.

Most likely they were more skillful than this woman of the Mayor's.

She knew how much being skillful in the art of love could enhance your life.

Now, there was one more thing for a skillful captain to try.

They're skillful enough not to be found if no one's hunting them.

Now we can see the steady, skillful march to war.

No matter how skillful Fame might be he could not hope to stand against four or more of them.

It does have a few skillful works, some of them interactive.

It is time to let someone more skillful rack them.

If you're skillful, you may be able to cushion your own fall.

So we were not exactly the most skillful riders in the world.

A. I think on many fronts he's skillful and has done a good job.