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
He's a nice chap, and a cleverish chap, in the shrewd, unimaginative Potter way—Jane's way, too—only she's a shade cleverer—but chiefly he's determined to get there somehow.
From Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract by Dame Rose Macaulay
They must be cleverish people, I fancy, or the spirits wouldn’t come to them.”
From The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
He was a dapper little man, with a cleverish, weakling cast of face, and was all on the jump with the turn things had taken.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
If Tom tells a cleverish story—there is such a thing as a knight!
From Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith
