clever
adjective
mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
cleverish
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a word derived from
clever.
Example Sentences
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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
That's why he'll never be more than cleverish and mediocre, never the real thing.
From Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract by Dame Rose Macaulay
There's a young carpenter lives up the court here—a cleverish fellow.
From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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 Dame Rose Macaulay
A favorite piece on the Tory side was the Cow Chase, a cleverish parody on Chevy Chase, written by the gallant and unfortunate Major Andre, at the expense of "Mad" Anthony Wayne.
From Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
