cleverness
Example Sentences
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As to the famous fine line between stupid and clever, the stupidity and the cleverness are all but inextricable, and to the point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2026
St Mirren character, St Mirren cleverness, St Mirren glory - all there in black and white and in fantastic technicolour too.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025
The fights and chases are semi-effective, but there’s such a startling lack of cleverness that it’s as if the filmmakers took “Idiocracy” as a guide rather than a warning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
The cleverness of the execution is as or more important than how seamless it is.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2025
I learned to prefer peace to war, cleverness to stupidity, love to hate, sensitivity to stoicism, humility to pomposity, reconciliation to hostility, harmony to strife, patience to rashness, gregariousness to misanthropy, creation to annihilation.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
Vocabulary lists containing cleverness
"The Experiment" and "Superstition"
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