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- adjective
superlative form ofclever : mostclever .
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Examples
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To Thyrsis this mockery came like a blast of fire in the face; he did not know that it was the regular method of the newspaper -- a method by means of which it had made itself known as the cleverest and most readable paper in the country.
Love's Pilgrimage Upton Sinclair 1923
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Minute differences between the races exist and the cleverest are the Eskimos .
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He called the cleverest of his children, and bade it affix to his breech-cloth a plantain-leaf, dog's-tail-wise, and waggishly.
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Had she not been called the cleverest woman in Europe at one time?
The Elusive Pimpernel Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906
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He turned and saw a certain Fred Beaucock -- once a promising lawyer's clerk and local dandy, who had been called the cleverest fellow in Sherton, without whose brains the firm of solicitors employing him would be nowhere.
The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884
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'Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain-tricks of Custom: but of all these, perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the Miraculous, by simple repetition, ceases to be Miraculous.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Warning as Facebook scam dubbed cleverest yet A FACEBOOK scam, dubbed the cleverest yet, gets users to provide their passwords and financial details by accusing them of violating the site's policy and threatens to delete their account.
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He seems to have been intimate with several of the leading men, particularly Shiel, whom all agree in describing as the cleverest man of his party.
The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Volume 1 (of 3) Charles Greville 1829
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The barrister Jonathan Sumption has been described as the cleverest Britain, with "a brain the size of the planet" and fees to match.
WN.com - Articles related to Poor children a year behind when they start school, study says 2010
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The cleverest is a poster campaign by the Tokyo Metro.
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