practiced

practiced or prac·tised [prak-tist] ExamplesWord Origin adjective

1. skilled or expert; proficient through practice or experience: a practiced hand at politics.
2. acquired or perfected through practice: a practiced English accent.

Origin of practiced First recorded in 1560–70; practice + -ed2 Related formsnon·prac·ticed, adjectivewell-prac·ticed, adjective Examples from the Web for well-practiced Contemporary Examples of well-practiced

How the Queen feels about this remains one of the many secrets that she conceals behind her well-practiced inscrutability.

Queen Victoria’s Secret Scottish Sex Castle

Clive Irving

August 17, 2014

Historical Examples of well-practiced

And with his well-practiced eyes he endeavored to pierce the gloom of the river.

Michael Strogoff

Jules Verne

In a routine so well-practiced that it had become ritual, he checked over the cruiser point by point.

Eight Keys to Eden

Mark Irvin Clifton

The well-practiced Republican apologists exhausted their ingenuity in endeavoring to explain away the reverse.

Border and Bastille

George A. Lawrence

Word Origin and History for well-practiced practiced adj.

“expert,” 1560s, past participle adjective from practice (v.).