clever
Example Sentences
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For entertainment reporter Indigo Stafford, what we are seeing is "a mixture of both clever PR and method acting".
From BBC
By using clever debt structures, Chinese companies are able to purchase U.S. facilities while obscuring their true ownership.
From MarketWatch
Andy Akiho’s clever music mechanically parrots the repetitions in the text and grows increasingly frantic as the students’ frustration and discomfort escalate—they hate her and they want her to notice them.
Her clever brown eyes were looking straight at the jackalope prince, and he bowed to her with a dramatic flourish.
From Literature
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And it always tells the truth, unlike some of the young trees that tell you what they think you want to hear or are just too, too clever.
From Literature
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.