Word Finder - clever

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Nimble with hands or body; skillful; adept.

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Resourceful, sometimes to the point of cunning.

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clever like a fox

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Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.

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Showing inventiveness or originality; witty.

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(of an Aboriginal Australian) Possessing magical abilities.

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Fit; suitable; having propriety.

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Well-shaped; handsome.

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Good-natured; obliging.

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Fit and healthy; free from fatigue or illness.

As a child he was clever and delicate.

He was a clever writer and historian.

You're a clever girl and you'll know how to manage.

The clever cost savings idea of sleeping in the car didn't sound so safe right now.

He is a wise and clever fellow.

And all he said--that it was necessary to await provisions, or that the men had no boots--was so simple, while what they proposed was so complicated and clever, that it was evident that he was old and stupid and that they, though not in power, were commanders of genius.

When a woman wants to know, she looks for some clever way to trick the man into disclosing the facts.

He knew that all the intellectual lights of Petersburg were gathered there and, like a child in a toyshop, did not know which way to look, afraid of missing any clever conversation that was to be heard.

You know Bilibin--he's a very clever fellow.

The natives, who are Micronesian hybrids of finer physique than their kinsmen of the Pelew Islands, have a comparatively high mental standard, being careful agriculturists, and peculiarly clever boatbuilders and navigators.

That was a clever move - using Clara as a source for his information.

Thaddeus Wojciechowski has published a clever work on Slavonic antiquities.

Clever. It serves a dual purpose.

And he is so clever and so good! said Natasha.

Formerly in Anna Pavlovna's presence, Pierre had always felt that what he was saying was out of place, tactless and unsuitable, that remarks which seemed to him clever while they formed in his mind became foolish as soon as he uttered them, while on the contrary Hippolyte's stupidest remarks came out clever and apt.

His reputation was helped by several clever if somewhat wrong-headed publications, including a satirical pamphlet entitled The Theology and Philosophy of Cicero's Somnium Scipionis (1751), a defence of the Hutchinsonians in A Fair, Candid and Impartial State of the Case between Sir Isaac Newton and Mr Hutchinson (1753), and critiques upon William Law (1758) and Benjamin Kennicott (1760).

As an author he was a clever essayist and epigrammatist.

Was this break in and shooting a coincidental event or might someone else have been as clever as I at tracking down this nefarious tipster?

He was generous and enlightened, a good soldier and a clever diplomatist.

Just then his eye fell upon the lanterns and the can of kerosene oil which Zeb had brought from the car of his balloon, and he got a clever idea from those commonplace things.

The reforming party cordially welcomed and courted him, in the first place because he was reputed to be clever and very well read, and secondly because by liberating his serfs he had obtained the reputation of being a liberal.

In Helene's circle the war in general was regarded as a series of formal demonstrations which would very soon end in peace, and the view prevailed expressed by Bilibin--who now in Petersburg was quite at home in Helene's house, which every clever man was obliged to visit--that not by gunpowder but by those who invented it would matters be settled.

The women are sprightly, clever and amiable.

I am so clever; at times I surprise myself!

You are young, you are rich, you are clever, you are well educated.

However, clever marketing and a high-profile marriage would change things.

His second wife, Madame de Montesson, whom he married secretly in 1773, was a clever woman and an authoress of some repute.

He was educated, like many of the Numidian chiefs, at Carthage, learnt Latin and Greek, and was an accomplished as well as a naturally clever man.

In addition to being a good bishop, Marius was a clever goldsmith; he was present at the council of Macon in 585, and transferred the seat of his bishopric from Avenches to Lausanne.

Rudolph was a clever and cultured man, greatly interested in chemistry, alchemy, astronomy and astrology; he was a patron of Tycho Brahe and Kepler, and was himself something of a scholar and an artist.

She had been flirting with him and enjoying his clever side steps for the last few days, but she was tiring of the game.

The rich, of course, got very clever about where they earned and reported income.

Our dear countess was too clever with Vera, said the count.

All that was done around her and to her at this time, all the attention devoted to her by so many clever men and expressed in such pleasant, refined ways, and the state of dove-like purity she was now in (she wore only white dresses and white ribbons all that time) gave her pleasure, but her pleasure did not cause her for a moment to forget her aim.

But to say that he destroyed his army because he wished to, or because he was very stupid, would be as unjust as to say that he had brought his troops to Moscow because he wished to and because he was very clever and a genius.

Jules Sandeau was a clever and attractive young lawyer.

It does something clever with Google maps to create a map where visitors to your site are logged.

But the Gargoyles were clever enough not to attack the horse the next time.

The rat, being a clever creature, jumped onto the back of the ox.

Through clever marketing and even cleverer design, Guess became one of the fashion leaders of its time, and it still going strong today.

The Clever Moda Underwear Mesh Bars Print Low-Rise Boxer Brief is made of stretch nylon-Lycra with triple reinforced stitching.

Clever designers have made and remade this fantasy garment in a range of colors and visibility.

If you like to support smaller online destinations, then this is also a clever place to go.

Jessica used her "dumb blonde" image to further her career and the clever marketing is often credited to her micromanaging father, Joe.

Barenaked Ladies lyrics are known for being funny and clever - they're one of the things that usually wins listeners over to the band.

This has shown me that people can be quite clever in more lighthearted endeavors.

Ed WELL RED Well done you clever boffins at YS, you've enticed yet another amazed disciple away from an Iron Curtain magazine.

Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the society of clever women.

Clever words about a situation that many Lady Gaga fans enjoy highlight a career for an artist that is bound to only get further.

His grandfather had obtained from Venice an " artist " who undertook " to build churches and palaces, to cast big bells and cannons, to fire off the said cannons and to make every sort of castings very cunningly "; and with the aid of that clever Venetian he had become the proud possessor of a " cannon-house," subsequently dignified with the name of " arsenal."