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Significados de clever em inglês

Showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others.

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Showing inventiveness and skill.

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Examples for "cunning"
Examples for "cunning"
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This demands quite a bit of hard work, not to say cunning.
The Guardian
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Perhaps, by sheer nerve and animal cunning, you'll survive for a year.
Immortality Inc.
3
There was no cunning in the speech: it was the simple truth.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12...
4
Money and power and privilege run the Beautiful Game - and cunning.
Radio NZ
5
Though cunning in many ways, the opossum is singularly simple in others.
Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Makin...
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America's technologists need the peace-of-mind that their ingenious creations will actually work.
Wired
2
This week, however, container flats started to look a little less ingenious.
The Guardian
3
They have found ingenious solutions in terms of various supposed divine plans.
The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
4
She studied manners closely; drew ingenious inferences; suggested dramatic and startling conclusions.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
5
The plants themselves are in the hands of the ingenious Dr. Woodward.
A Voyage to New Holland, Etc. in the Year 1699
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I was an inexperienced youth, and the cavalier was adroit in questioning.
Berlin and Sans-Souci; Or, Frederick the Great and His Friends
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They were fairly adroit workers in silver, electrum, and especially in gold.
History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume...
3
The answer of the Advocate was sufficiently adroit if not excessively sincere.
History of the United Netherlands, 1598
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The adroit capture of Bonn by Martin Schenk had given much trouble.
History of the United Netherlands, 1588b
5
Lady Constance was a distinguished beauty of two seasons; fresh, but adroit.
Tancred; Or, The New Crusade

Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity.

Mentally agile.

Uso de clever em inglês
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However the team found a clever way of working out the age.
Radio NZ
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At first he thought simply of clever questions to ask the Sage.
Mixed Magics
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MagSafe is extremely clever as a concept and exceedingly fine in reality.
The Verge
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The vibe knob is a clever solution to a thorny social problem.
Wired
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There's some really clever use of pixelation and freezing and different points.
The Irish Times
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She reckoned he was very clever; the best lawyer in the State.
Elder Conklin and Other Stories
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He will hope for another clever goal from his unsung hero today.
The Guardian
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Something far beyond the abilities of a Manipular, however clever, to comprehend.
Halo Cryptum
9
Most of the men insulted Hjalti; he was not clever in speech.
The Relation of the Hrólfs Saga Kraka and the Bjarkarímur to Beo...
10
Need some clever ideas for a unique side dish or light meal?
The South African
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I'm not clever enough to fix these problems, or lead the charge.
The Guardian
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Great changes had taken place in the ideas of that clever speculator.
The Alkahest
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Do I need help, or just some clever ways to wear them?
The Irish Times
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Back in your element, the man of clever words-talkabout an attack!
Down river
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He wants the glory, wants to be seen as clever and important.
The cold room
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You may have thought you were clever, but we've seen much better.
The cold room
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