clever
Example Sentences
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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
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
The title is also incredibly clever, an accurate reuse of the Greek poem with the line, “they tried to bury us, but they didn’t know that we were seeds,” which was utilized by the Zapatistas.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
