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Definition of Clevernesses
1. cleverness [n] - See also: cleverness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clevernesses
Literary usage of Clevernesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton by Sir Egerton Brydges (1834)
"... must direct them—False models—False clevernesses and false stimulants—Dominion
of charlatanism—False philosophizing—Public opinion—Systematizing, ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"... for Chesterton has a message, a still small voice struggling to make itself
heard thru the crashing concert of his complex clevernesses. ..."
3. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"... turns partly out of native viciousness, and partly because he hated him for
his superiorities of physique and pluck, and for his manifold clevernesses. ..."
4. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"It relishes the pretty trivialities of art, its vulgar clevernesses, its conscious
graces. It has a kindly greeting for anything which looks as if, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1865)
"... when she discussed her own doings and plans and clevernesses, she was bringing
forward the subject most interesting to her audience as well as to ..."
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