Cleverness is an English word with synonyms like ingeniousness or ingenuity. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Cleverness in a sentence
Cleverness meaning
- The property of being clever.
- Something clever, or done cleverly.
Synonyms of Cleverness
Using Cleverness
- The main meaning on this page is: The property of being clever. | Something clever, or done cleverly.
- Useful related words include: ingeniousness, ingenuity, superiority, intelligence.
- In the example corpus, cleverness often appears in combinations such as: cleverness of, the cleverness, cleverness and.
Context around Cleverness
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cleverness
- In this selection, "cleverness" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, calculated, political, apparent, cedes and hts stand out and add context to how "cleverness" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and apparent cleverness and and some cleverness to put. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cleverness" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cleverness
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
A report card cataloguing her cleverness. (6 words)
But the cleverness of the gambit undercuts itself. (8 words)
He forgot the intelligence and cleverness of his own people. (10 words)
From the storybook charm of Yoshi Yoshitani to the Vegas lights of Mike Del Mundo, the textbook cleverness of Eleanor Davis to the ‘80s neon-chic of Rich Tommaso, these are the best comic book covers of March 2018. (39 words)
It manages to feel both overcomplicated and overly trivial, with lots of intricate level design but somehow a lack of eureka moments, where you marvel at the cleverness of the designers and your ability to solve their puzzles. (38 words)
I assert that we had them in 2022, long before, and we grapple with this tendency, this modus vivendi, that twists us into knots, and leave us prostrate, and vulnerable to the cleverness of others. (35 words)
A play by Colin Speer Crowley about the 1920 presidential nominee Warren G. Harding – was it destiny or calculated cleverness by Harding’s campaign manager? (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
But the cleverness of the gambit undercuts itself.
I assert that we had them in 2022, long before, and we grapple with this tendency, this modus vivendi, that twists us into knots, and leave us prostrate, and vulnerable to the cleverness of others.
Johnny then uses his guns and some cleverness to put the fire out with some water.
On the contrary, 's investigator class that is characterized not by its combat prowess, but by its cleverness and wisdom.
Under the guise of congratulating them, Death offers them gifts for their cleverness, which he plans to use to kill them off.
When their cleverness was caught, it was found that two of the three youths had donated blood earlier also by taking money.
It manages to feel both overcomplicated and overly trivial, with lots of intricate level design but somehow a lack of eureka moments, where you marvel at the cleverness of the designers and your ability to solve their puzzles.
The film has a few lines written like this, giving the kids a cleverness that works well with their ages.
Too often, however, that cleverness cedes to snobbery: “They didn’t get that one at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley”, he winked to his metropolitan audience at the West End Garrick.
A play by Colin Speer Crowley about the 1920 presidential nominee Warren G. Harding – was it destiny or calculated cleverness by Harding’s campaign manager?
A sophisticated politician credited Hitler with peculiar political cleverness for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on anti-Semitism, saying: "You can't expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims.
Bundy once again resurfaces as the unlikely serial killer on the basis of his looks and apparent cleverness.
Despite its cleverness, HTS is an authoritarian group that a vast number of Syrians oppose.
He forgot the intelligence and cleverness of his own people.
Hence, the prince was saved because of the cleverness of his new bride and since then the day is celebrated as Naraka Chaturdashi – Naraka means hell and Chaturdashi means 14th.
The pilot has some of the loose rhythm of “Parks and Recreation” but not much of the cleverness.
A report card cataloguing her cleverness.
From the storybook charm of Yoshi Yoshitani to the Vegas lights of Mike Del Mundo, the textbook cleverness of Eleanor Davis to the ‘80s neon-chic of Rich Tommaso, these are the best comic book covers of March 2018.
It was cleverer to have marked down the Flying Stars and the very day of Fischer’s coming; but there’s no cleverness, only mere genius, in what followed.
Putting aside the higher production value of his album career, the mixtape relies on the versatility and cleverness of Logic’s bars to stand out from the competition.
Common combinations with cleverness
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- cleverness of 9×
- the cleverness 6×
- cleverness and 3×
- their cleverness 3×
- cleverness to 2×
- its cleverness 2×
- and cleverness 2×
- his cleverness 2×