clever-clever
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Angular riffs, clever-clever lyrics and big, hooky choruses were the order of the day.
From BBC • May 8, 2025
It is also, like its stars, every so slightly clever-clever and irritating.
From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2011
Installed in the vast, operatic spaces of MOCA'S industrial annex, the Temporary Contemporary -- once a police-car garage -- the show looks like the Gotterdammerung of academic Postmodernism: inflated, whining, self-indulgent and occasionally clever-clever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Its images strike to the heart, not in any sentimental way, but equally without any of the clever-clever flittering of Postmodernism.
From Time Magazine Archive
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