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Meanings of too clever in English

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Usage of too clever in English
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All of which really means he is very clever, almost too clever.
The Irish Times
2
Guardiola is too good and too clever to be so easily stalled.
The Guardian
3
He is too clever at trapping us in his narrow little cell.
Mushrooms on the Moor
4
You boys always were too clever for your own good, weren't you?
Dante's numbers
5
The world was too clever and too experienced for her ingenuous self.
The Lion's Share
6
He was too clever and too cynical to be really fond of.
The picture of Dorian Gray (First printing version)
7
Hurstwood was too clever to give the slightest indication of a change.
Sister Carrie: A Novel
8
I fear the lady Padmavati, she is too clever and too prudent.
Vikram and the Vampire: Classic Hindu Tales of Adventure, Magic,...
9
This fellow Ellsworth would be too clever to be caught by it.
The Best American Humorous Short Stories
10
There was no rancor about Kohn: he was too clever for that.
Jean-Christophe in Paris: The Market-Place, Antoinette, the Hous...
11
But alas for the poor turtles, men are too clever for them.
Martin Rattler
12
Thing is, Dustin is too clever to be purely a kids' thing.
The Irish Times
13
The professors- Idon'tthink they like him much; he is too clever.
Elder Conklin and Other Stories
14
Elaine was too clever to confound his dandyism with foppishness or self-advertisement.
The Unbearable Bassington
15
She was far too clever to let him know her ambitious purpose.
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
16
You are too clever- Ishallnever get a direct answer from you.
Don Orsino
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