cleverly

adverb

clev·​er·​ly ˈkle-vər-lē 

1

: in a clever manner

2

dialectal : fully, completely

as soon as he was cleverly out of hearing

—T. C. Haliburton

: entirely, quite

the boy wasn't cleverly grown

3

dialectal : satisfactorily, conveniently

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