clever
adjective
mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
cleverness
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a word derived from
clever.
Example Sentences
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Rangers in that first half lacked movement and cleverness and X-factor.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
“The genius of the character, the cleverness, the inventiveness of him, that was a huge part of what interested me. He’s not just a soldier. He’s an amazing strategist, a very wily person.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
“Influencers,” like its predecessor, was written and directed by the Canadian Kurtis David Harder, whose cleverness is as abundant as the body count.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
The fights and chases are semi-effective, but there’s such a startling lack of cleverness that it’s as if the filmmakers took “Idiocracy” as a guide rather than a warning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
They found the cleverness of their forebears’ music, with its fugues, its interweaving counterpoint, its layering upon layer of sounds, too academic and dry, rather like student exercises.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
