cleverish
- 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
C. V. Stanford's "East to West," libretto by Poet Swinburne, is cleverish.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 20, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir
They must be cleverish people, I fancy, or the spirits wouldn’t come to them.”
From The Claverings by Trollope, Anthony
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 Gough, George W.
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
