Meaning of cleverness in English
(Definition of cleverness from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of cleverness
cleverness
Her surviving letters are full of practicalities and jokes and cleverness and clothes and the price of fish and sheer life.
From Huffington Post
Through their cleverness, our lactose-intolerant forebears had already found a way to consume dairy without getting sick, irrespective of genetics.
From Slate Magazine
We in the media are expected to marvel at its cleverness or cluck at the naughty, over-the-top excess.
From TIME
There is almost nothing worse than self-referential prose from writers enchanted by their own cleverness.
From Slate Magazine
None of these are fondly remembered masterpieces, but they at least achieved a basic level of competence and a modicum of cleverness in conception.
From A.V. Club
People are measured by their cleverness, their sensitivity.
His tactical and political cleverness pulled us back from a disaster.
From TIME
Overall, however, one comes away with the sense that the greatest limitation we face is human cleverness.
From Ars Technica
He becomes, right before our eyes, that young cosmic fool, burning up the landscape with his words and cleverness.
From NPR
The trouble with this interpretation (aside from its striking smugness) is that the book doesn't suffer from its cleverness.
From Slate Magazine
Not unlike its title character, the movie can be cloddish and clumsy, but it is also a thing of wily cleverness and lithe, surprising grace.
From Los Angeles Times
Sell all your cleverness and purchase true bewilderment.
From CNN
Indeed, they look back and wish they'd been more insistent about their cleverness when they were young.
From CNET
They'll know nothing of his past, his problems, his malicious streak, his curious predilections, his cleverness, his teenage nihilism.
From Gizmodo
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.
From USA TODAY
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intelligence [feminine], ingéniosité [feminine], ingéniosité…
賢（かしこ）さ…
zekâ, akıllılık…
verstand, handigheid…
chytrost, šikovnost…
klogskab, dygtighed…
kepandaian…
ความฉลาด…
sự lanh lợi, thông minh…
pomysłowość, zręczność, spryt…
skicklighet, talang…
kepintaran…
die Klugheit…
dyktighet [masculine], lurhet [masculine], intelligens…
обдарованість, здібність…
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