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smartness

[ US /ˈsmɑɹtnɪs/ ]
[ UK /smˈɑːtnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. liveliness and eagerness
    the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him
    he accepted with alacrity
  2. a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore
  3. elegance by virtue of being fashionable
  4. intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty

How To Use smartness In A Sentence

  • I think a primary vector of its economic and cultural pathology is the place of "smartness" in the white subculture you are talking about. Monoculture Is Bad For Business - Anil Dash
  • Any move towards "smartness" and autonomy must be dealt with in the design of the interaction. Don Norman: "The Design of Future Things"
  • In Europe, Malta is radically refiguring its water metering to conserve energy, and there is an EU-wide smarter cities initiative, ranking smaller towns according to their "smartness". City design: Transforming tomorrow
  • Antony Standish could (but didn't) boast of a 'Varsity education, and he prided himself on his smartness, but he was far from being "gleg at the uptak', "as the Scots say, and his powers of observation and deduction assuredly would not have qualified him for a position as a Bandit Love
  • Who knew Webster's would define ‘dowdy’ as ‘lacking in smartness or taste’?
  • Intelligence and smartness in general is fundamentally prediction machinery.
  • They crossed to the farther side of the river, where the influence of the Gothic monument threw a distinction even over the Parisian smartnesses -- the municipal rule and measure, the importunate symmetries, the "handsomeness" of everything, the extravagance of gaslight, the perpetual click on the neat bridges. The Tragic Muse
  • The jumper strikes the perfect balance between comfort and smartness.
  • The staff were good on smiles and sartorial smartness, but fairly hopeless at actually doing what was required of them.
  • Other than the quality of what he's produced, there is no accepted measure of "smartness" one can invoke, no way to tell and nothing really being said in asking if Thomas is "smart enough" or "as smart as" some other judge. I play the race card on Obama for all but playing the race card on Clarence Thomas.
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