skillfully

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   with skill

   fragments of a nearly complete jug, skillfully restored at the institute of archaeology

2. 2
   adv

   In a skillful manner; with skill.

   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.

Etymology

From Middle English skilfully, skylfully, skilfulliche, equivalent to skillful + -ly.