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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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3 words match “CLEVERLY”

CLEVERLY adv.
In a clever manner. Never was man so clever absurd. C. Smart.
EVADE p.
ifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument. The heathen had a method, more truly their own, of evading the Christian miracles. Trench.
INGENIOUSLY adv.
In an ingenious manner; with ingenuity; skillfully; wittily; cleverly. "Too ingeniously politic." Sir W. Temple.