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Though makeshift and spotty, the play is not just one more movie-soppy, movie-safe bit of lonely hearts and flowers, or just one more cleverish game of theatrical double-dummy stage writing.

From Time Magazine Archive

There's a young carpenter lives up the court here—a cleverish fellow.

From Poison Island by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

They must be cleverish people, I fancy, or the spirits wouldn’t come to them.”

From The Claverings by Trollope, Anthony

If Tom tells a cleverish story—there is such a thing as a knight!

From Poems — Volume 1 by Meredith, George

It wasn't positively discreditable to its writer, like most novels, but it was a very normal book, by a very normal cleverish young man.

From Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract by Macaulay, Rose, Dame