(a.) Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.
(a.) Showing skill or adroitness in the doer or former; as, a clever speech; a clever trick.
(a.) Having fitness, propriety, or suitableness.
(a.) Well-shaped; handsome.
(a.) Good-natured; obliging.
Example Sentences:
(1) With such improvements, and possibly even with more clever use of therapy that already is available, wider and more complex use of liver transplantation will be possible.
(2) Lovely chip behind the defense on Green's goal, and almost sprung the defense with a clever free kick to play in Dempsey with time running out.
(3) The name suggests it is a clever but funny channel that it's OK to like.
(4) Rather, the two participated in a clever spoof of the show’s overly serious and die-hard tone.
(5) That’s plain wrong, has been for decades, and a clever chap like Nelson should know it.
(6) A clever political strategy would be to exploit these tensions.
(7) James Cleverly, MP for Braintree, who supported Johnson’s aborted leadership bid before backing May, said joking about him risked undermining the foreign secretary.
(8) But she describes Manafort as a “clever hire” by Trump.
(9) The destruction of climate science expertise in Australia’s premier research organisation is not clever, innovative, or agile.
(10) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
(11) It then sought to change the story with those clever, but frankly odd,, half-poetic public apologies.
(12) Fulham were helped by United being forced into a trio of substitutions at the interval, as Rafael succumbed to a twisted ankle, Cleverly had double vision and Evans had back trouble.
(13) Long Word... Long Word... Blah Blah Blah... I’m So Clever is at the Pleasance Courtyard, to 30 August JOE LYCETT Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Lycett.
(14) She is fantastically clever and when she's on about ideas she is astonishing.
(15) He strikes me more as a clever man - oh, very clever - than a necessarily charming man; for there's a distance, an aloofness.
(16) He is an innately optimistic character as well as a clever one, and a man who needs to persuade his party not to despair.
(17) It may be hard to tell in the latest show from the outrageously talented Meow Meow, a woman whose divinely sung and cleverly structured shows often give the impression of organised chaos.
(18) The PPP was one of those oh-so-clever schemes devised by government supposedly to attract private sector investment for infrastructure and avoiding such schemes ending up on the government's balance sheet.
(19) As I wrote then: "This clever, comprehensive-educated granddaughter of a miner served in government for more than a decade but retained the ability to speak human – a rare quality among New Labour politicians."
(20) That left her accelerating towards Karen Bardsley but, reacting well to the danger, Bardsley raced off her line, cleverly narrowing the angle.
Subtleness
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being subtle; subtlety.
Example Sentences:
(1) As a group, the three mammalian proteins resemble bovine serum conglutinin and behave as lectins with rather broad sugar specificities directed at certain non-reducing terminal N-acetylglucosamine, mannose, glucose and fucose residues, but with subtle differences in fine specificities.
(2) But it will be a subtle difference, because it's already abundantly clear there's no danger of the war being suddenly forgotten, or made to seem irrelevant to our sense of what Europe and the world has to avoid repeating.
(3) Communicating sustainability is a subtle attempt at doing good Read more And yet, in environmental terms it is infinitely preferable to prevent waste altogether, rather than recycle it.
(4) If, indeed, there is an immunologic basis for pre-eclampsia, it is more subtle than the methodology used in this study is capable of detecting.
(5) Subtle differences between Chicago urban and Grand Forks rural climates are reflected in arthritic subjects' degree of pain and their perception of pain-related stress.
(6) Critical in this understanding are the subtle changes that occur in the individual patient, reflecting the natural history of the disease or response to its treatment.
(7) Subtle cognitive deficits in Inferential Reading Comprehension were detected when Reading Vocabulary was at or better than a twelfth grade level.
(8) This histochemical difference corresponded to more subtle differences in Nissl and myelin staining patterns, and suggests further structural subdivisions of potential functional significance.
(9) Thus, luciferase transcriptional fusions can detect subtle variations in initial rates of gene expression in a real-time, nondestructive assay.
(10) The binding of [3H]PAF to washed human platelets indicated subtle changes between Days 2 and 4, which became more noticeable by Day 6.
(11) In this study the temperature dependence of the reactivity of aldolase SH groups is investigated in order to detect subtle changes in the enzyme conformation.
(12) The crucial issue of whether subtle behavioral, intellectual, and developmental impairment occurs in young children, as a result of lead-induced CNS damage is discussed in detail.
(13) Historically, what made SNL’s campaign coverage so necessary was its ability to highlight the subtle absurdities of the election and exaggerate the ridiculous.
(14) It is believed that by looking at such subtle shape differences an understanding of what it means morphologically for a primate to be either more or less arboreal may be achieved.
(15) The current magnetic resonance imaging system with computerized image processing is a sensitive and simple method for evaluation of subtle parenchymal changes of the brain.
(16) Fundus examination disclosed a subtle cherry red spot bilaterally.
(17) Ependymal cells developed luminal fronds that projected into the ventricle and the subpial glia displayed a very subtle gliosis in the form of thin multi-laminated processes.
(18) The rapidity of obtaining the results (within one hour), the complete absence of untoward reactions to the radiopharmaceuticals, the much lower frequency of subtle or indeterminate results, the ability to render useful information in the presence of moderate jaundice and the lack of interference from overlying intestinal contents establishes these radionuclide agents as superior to both radiographic oral and intravenous cholangiography in the investigation of the acute abdomen.
(19) Moreover, subtle improvements observed in earlier investigations were not confirmed.
(20) Various compounds show subtle but significant differences in blood clearance, excretion, and soft-tissue uptake.