cleverness
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Mr. Cregger is a successor to Mr. Carpenter also, but with more comedic finesse and more cleverness, plus a facility for sinuous plotting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
“Influencers,” like its predecessor, was written and directed by the Canadian Kurtis David Harder, whose cleverness is as abundant as the body count.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
The cleverness of the execution is as or more important than how seamless it is.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2025
Other jokes trade in more broadly-appealing cleverness; for example, that same brief frame at the cop con show featuring Yola Tomassi singing “Frisk and Shout” in the style of The Beatles.
From Salon ● May 8, 2025
Most of them had enough bulk to warrant a double take, but when she scanned their faces—often scarred, pockmarked, or just plain hideous—there was no spark behind their eyes, no shining kernel of cleverness.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
Vocabulary lists containing cleverness
"The Experiment" and "Superstition"
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