Word Finder - cleverest

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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.

The assassination of Beton left her the cleverest politician in Scotland.

A deserter announced his arrival to Vespasian, who rejoiced (Josephus says) that the cleverest of his enemies had thus voluntarily imprisoned himself.

Within a year or two he became junior partner with Thomas Whieldon of Fenton, then the cleverest master-potter in Staffordshire.

If I were not myself, but the handsomest, cleverest, and best man in the world, and were free, I would this moment ask on my knees for your hand and your love!

Clive, that smarmy monkey, always thinks he 's the cleverest !

Yet if on leaving the table we had been severally taken aside and asked which was the cleverest of the party, we should have been obliged to say ` the man in the green velvet trousers.'" This story is a little lamp that throws much light.

The Rhine-daughters' exultant cry of " Rhine-gold " is there tortured in an extremely remote modulation at the end of a very sinister transformation of the theme; and the orchestration, with its lurid but smothered brass instruments, its penetrating low reed tones and its weird drum-roll beaten on a suspended cymbal, is more awe-inspiring than anything dreamed of by the cleverest of those composers who do not create intellectual causes for their effects.

Unfortunately the cleverest replicas are now boasting both dust bags and authenticity cards, which make things very difficult for consumers.

The movement grew quickly, its supporters including a number of the cleverest younger politicians and journalists in the Unionist party.

Froude, described by Newman as "one of the acutest, cleverest and deepest men" he ever met, was elected fellow.

In 1773 there appeared in the Public Advertiser one of Franklin's cleverest hoaxes, " An Edict of the King of Prussia," proclaiming that the island of Britain was a colony of Prussia, having been settled by Angles and Saxons, having been protected by Prussia, having been defended by Prussia against France in the war just past, and never having been definitely freed from Prussia's rule; and that, therefore, Great Britain should now submit to certain taxes laid by Prussia - the taxes being identical with those laid upon the American colonies by Great Britain.