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US
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[ UK /klˈɛvəli/ ]
[ UK /klˈɛvəli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a clever manner
they were cleverly arranged
a smartly managed business
How To Use cleverly In A Sentence
- Batsmen need to use their feet cleverly when playing on the slightly slower pitches here so that they are in a position to play the ball without mistiming it.
- The director cleverly atmosphered the film for added chills.
- If obsession is about repetition and patterns of behaviour and often a means of gaining control in uncontrollable situations then the order that Jude aches to find in her life is being cleverly reflected visually in the unusual use and placing of words on the page. In Search of Adam
- It is no more than a cleverly crafted lump of inorganic matter; its shape and working parts are contrived to facilitate the intended function: the switching around of the circuitry in clearly defined ways.
- Choreographed to the 1947 Stravinsky score, Orpheus cleverly deploys six dancers to dramatise the story of Orpheus and Eurydice, with a chorus of living characters (Orpheus's friends/chorus) and the inhabitants of the underworld (Death and Furies). This week's new dance
- Two of the wounded crusaders abandoned the tower, but the third one defended himself all day so cleverly from the Turkish attacks that on that occasion he knocked down two Turks at the entrance of the walls with broken spears. De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The Battle for Antioch in the First Crusade (1097-98) according to Peter Tudebode
- The city cleverly combines cultural attractions such as museums, galleries, theatres and opera houses - with a very strong fun-loving steak.
- This website cleverly lifted one intemperate remark by a well-respected scientist and all of you are commenting on it as if this remark is the sum total of his arguments. Think Progress » Leading Climate Skeptic Compares Gore to Hitler
- The Circotherm system includes a unique, finely balanced, fan which cleverly draws any wasted heat directly back into the oven.
- Attempts to shore up the value of a derivative without shoring up the value of the assets from which they ultimately derive their value are likely to be in vain however cleverly we may try to finagle.