Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an ingenious manner; with ingenuity; with skill; wittily; cleverly.
  • Ingenuously; frankly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an ingenious manner; with ingenuity; skillfully; wittily; cleverly.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In an ingenious manner.
  • adverb Using ingenuity.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an ingenious manner

Etymologies

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ingenious +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • And, you know, it's not -- the Republican Party does not have a history of using very kind of ingeniously coded racial appeals to try to scare white voters away from the Democratic Party generally.

    CNN Transcript Aug 11, 2008 2008

  • In these salons [he writes] the rigorously observed proprieties were not a kind of ingeniously-constructed corsets that served to hide deformed hearts; they only necessitated the spiritualisation of all contacts, the elevation of all rapports, the aristocratisation of all impressions.

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • Rectory, “to a female mind, that that can employ itself ingeniously, that is capable of friendship, that is blessed with affluence, where are the evils of celibacy?

    Anna Seward and Classic Lichfield Stapleton Martin 1884

  • Ozick's stories ingeniously put scholarship in the service of human flowerings. '

    Dictation by Cynthia Ozick: Book summary 2010

  • Fighting a stealthy relationship with a co-worker, his own artistic insecurity, and now his beloved child, Goldthwait ingeniously backs Lance into a terrifying corner.

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  • Bill ingeniously invented a way to institutionalize his love for giving special gifts.

    Daredevil 2009

  • Or Mr. Richter could have focused on the Indians of the Ohio River, who ingeniously played off Britain and France for more than a century.

    Discovering America Anew Charles C. Mann 2011

  • As the digital marketplace has become global, it has become commonpractice for businesses to give away some of their very best stuff forfree and lots of it, while ingeniously developing a way to competewith others who want to give away higher and higher value innovationsfor free and still have a business - think Google and Facebook.

    Simon Dixon: Why You Will Have No Job Very Soon Simon Dixon 2011

  • I ingeniously ambushed a crack team of US commandos in my bedroom.

    Dr Gerry Mander: the therapist the stars trust 2011

  • There are vertiginous 3D swoops up and down ships, in and out of water and over jungles, and some of the action is ingeniously choreographed.

    Pirates of the Caribbean 4 - review 2011

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