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1
mental skill or quickness
- it takes real cleverness to find a way around the rules
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- artfulness,
- artifice,
- caginess
- (also cageyness),
- canniness,
- craft,
- craftiness,
- cunning,
- cunningness,
- deviousness,
- foxiness,
- guile,
- slickness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- subtleness,
- wiliness
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2
subtle or imaginative ability in inventing, devising, or executing something
- the undeniable cleverness of the negotiator, who managed to get each side to believe that they had won
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3
the skill and imagination to create new things
- Cole Porter's overall cleverness with words, including his effortless ability to rhyme and pun
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“Cleverness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleverness. Accessed 21 Oct. 2021.
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