Example Sentences

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To untangle the clever chronology of “True Detective” is to confront an unclever cop show.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 7, 2019

It also feels kind of gross to spam my socials with terribly unclever BlackBerry ads.

From The Verge • Mar. 20, 2018

The truly sad, tragic, and pathetic thing is that it will have happened so easily, and at the hands of such an unclever, boorish, inelegant man.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2018

A lot of Ghost Story reviews will no doubt end with unclever jokes about how seeing this film is a “haunting” experience.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2017

I don't know how it is, but this little place of mine, modest though it is, and unassuming and unclever as I am, is positively the very centre of the district.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, October 13, 1920 by Seaman, Owen, Sir