Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Dexterously; skilfully; ably; effectively.
- Pleasantly; nicely; comfortably: as, to be cleverly lodged.
- Fairly; actually.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a clever manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
Wittily ; in atricky manner. - adverb Intelligently directed to a purpose.
- adverb
Completely ,fully .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a clever manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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They are musical plays on the song "Henya" with the name cleverly spelled backwards to indicate their musical affinity.
Ralph A. Miriello: When the Heart Emerges Glistening a Powerful New Album by Ambrose Akinmusire Ralph A. Miriello 2011
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They are musical plays on the song "Henya" with the name cleverly spelled backwards to indicate their musical affinity.
Ralph A. Miriello: When the Heart Emerges Glistening a Powerful New Album by Ambrose Akinmusire Ralph A. Miriello 2011
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They are musical plays on the song "Henya" with the name cleverly spelled backwards to indicate their musical affinity.
Ralph A. Miriello: When the Heart Emerges Glistening a Powerful New Album by Ambrose Akinmusire Ralph A. Miriello 2011
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Demonstrating a tongue-in-cheek knowledge of Internet memetics, the title cleverly derives from the popular Simpsons quote The goggles!
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They are musical plays on the song "Henya" with the name cleverly spelled backwards to indicate their musical affinity.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ralph A. Miriello 2011
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There are new Chinese fashion designers who work in cleverly-designed shops, done obviously on a shoestring but making it look almost more appealing than some of the lux stores at the huge shopping malls.
Norma Kamali: My Trip to China Norma Kamali 2010
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The press coverage was very one-sided and all the videos sent in cleverly edited were all from protesters.
London G20 Police outnumbered and attacked « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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There are new Chinese fashion designers who work in cleverly-designed shops, done obviously on a shoestring but making it look almost more appealing than some of the lux stores at the huge shopping malls.
Norma Kamali: My Trip to China Norma Kamali 2010
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There are new Chinese fashion designers who work in cleverly-designed shops, done obviously on a shoestring but making it look almost more appealing than some of the lux stores at the huge shopping malls.
Norma Kamali: My Trip to China Norma Kamali 2010
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Two of the wounded crusaders abandoned the tower, but the third one defended himself all day so cleverly from the Turkish attacks that on that occasion he knocked down two Turks at the entrance of the walls with broken spears.
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