Word Meanings - CLEVERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a clever manner. Never was man so clever absurd. C. Smart.

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• SMARTWEED
  An acrid plant of the genus Polygonum , which produces smarting if applied where the skin is tender.
• NEVERTHELESS
  Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11. Syn. -- However; at least; yet; still.
• ABSURDNESS
  Absurdity.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• NEVERMORE
  Never again; at no time hereafter. Testament of Love. Tyndale. Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore. Longfellow.
• ABSURDITY
  1. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. "The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number." Locke. 2. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were
• ABSURDLY
  In an absurd manner.
• SMARTLY
  In a smart manner.
• CLEVER
  cloven; or clifer a claw, perh. connected with E. cleave to divide, split, the meaning of E. clever perh. coming from the idea 1. Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert. Though there were many clever
• SMARTNESS
  The quality or state of being smart.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• ABSURD
  Contrary to reason or propriety; obviously and fiatly opposed to manifest truth; inconsistent with the plain dictates of common sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. This
• NEVER
  1. Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future. Shak. Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. Pope. 2. In no degree; not in the least; not. Whosoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his eyes in another man's
• CLEVERNESS
  The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness. Syn. -- See Ingenuity.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• SMART
  schmerzen, OHG. smerzan, Dan. smerte, SW. smärta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, Ohg. smerzo, and probably to L. mordere to bite; 1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my
• NEVERTHELATER
  Nevertheless.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• SMARTLE
  To waste away.
• WHENEVER
  At whatever time. "Whenever that shall be." Milton.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• NOSESMART
  A kind of cress, a pungent cruciferous plant, including several species of the genus Nasturtium.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• MINEVER
  See MINIVER
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.