How to use cleverness in a sentence

More sentences with cleverness

• People impute great cleverness to cats.From the entry impute
• Metroidvanias are an inherently clever genre, and the cleverness can sometimes sap a little of the energy.2019 June 18, Christian Donlan, “Gato Roboto review - a pet-sized Metroidvania filled with delights”, in Eurogamer. From the entry Metroidvania
• The fossil fuel experience has made us dangerously confident about our cleverness and dominance over nature.2011 October 5, Tom Murphy, “"Sustainable" Means Bunkty to Me”, in Do the Math. From the entry fossil fuel
• And then she giggles, inordinately pleased by her own cleverness.2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 173. From the entry inordinately
• The implication is that the compiler is actually trying to optimize the program, but through excessive cleverness is doing the opposite.1996, Eric S[teven] Raymond, “pessimizing compiler”, in The New Hacker’s Dictionary, 3rd edition, Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press…. From the entry pessimize
• Incomprehensible to the reader of his own philosophemes which arise from want of cleverness in his own thinking.1994, Dan Potter, “Real Philosophy minus Pretense: Searle on Schelling”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 1, →DOI. From the entry philosopheme
• After three hits his cleverness ran out.1969, Colin Watson, The Flaxborough Chronicle, →OCLC, page 250. From the entry boob
• You're the match of the old one for cleverness.1908, Stanley J. Weyman, Wild Geese, page 270. From the entry old one
• Still, the meta-textual cleverness of the whole affair takes a little while to settle into, partly because the early storylines feel so routine.2016 October 2, David Sims, “Westworld Is a Grand Saga of Gunslingers and Robots”, in The Atlantic. From the entry metatextual
• Patel has a ready wit, the sort of um-er cleverness that purports to be mental dishevelledness but actually implies a suave urbanity.2010 November 29, Lauren Collins, “Are You the Messiah?”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry dishevelledness
• In French, the meanings of malicieux and malice have changed to mean mischievious and mischieviousness, with an implication of cleverness and perhaps a little teasing.2009, Saul H. Rosenthal, French Faux Amis: The Combined Book, page 17. From the entry mischievious
• Moore is an equal-opportunity japester: heroes and villains both crack wise with Chandleresque vivacity, so you can’t use cleverness as a moral index.2009 August 30, Jonathan Lethem, “Eyes Wide Open”, in New York Times. From the entry japester
• Though to delve further into its postviewing meanings may be food for cleverness, C. to C. is at no point remarkably interesting as movement.2007 October 29, Alastair Macaulay, “An Ephemeral Portrait of an Artist in a Hall of Mirrors”, in New York Times. From the entry postviewing
• If a person is developed merely in an intellectual, ratiocinative way, then he will be a contradictory mix of cleverness and savagery.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry ratiocinative
• The higher the civilization, the more refined the cleverness of the archists in hiding the usurpation of power — without weakening the exercise of power.1980, Frederic Trautmann, The Voice of Terror: A Biography of Johann Most, page 102. From the entry archist
• All newcomers who plunged or waded or toe-dipped into the market believed, or at least hoped, they had some special insight or cleverness not granted to anybody else.2011, Max Gunther, Wall Street and Witchcraft. From the entry toe-dip
• In seeking readers and advertisers, publications like The Atlantic and The Economist, known as thought-leader magazines, have long tried to make up in cleverness what they lack in wallet power.2008 October 3, Stuart Elliott, “Brainy Brand Names Where They’re Least Expected”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Jun 2014. From the entry thought leader

Meaning of cleverness

1. noun The property of being clever.
2. noun Something clever, or done cleverly.

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Questions about cleverness in a sentence

How do you use cleverness in a sentence?

Cleverness is used as a noun. For example: “People impute great cleverness to cats.”

What is a short sentence with cleverness?

“People impute great cleverness to cats.”

What does cleverness mean?

Cleverness means the property of being clever.