Cleverality
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /klɛvəˈɹælɪtɪ/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cleverality is a noun meaning (formerly Scotland, now chiefly Ireland) cleverness.
Meaning
(formerly Scotland, now chiefly Ireland) cleverness.
Example Sentences
The cleverality did not end there as McCreevy decided to borrow some of the old clothes from Tony Blair's spin machine
"That," said Professor Denis Donoghue, "is what in Ireland is called 'cleverality.'" We had been talking of a contemporary American poet whom I admired for ironic and dazzling wit.
But the time wearing late, and Tammie Bodkin having brought ben the shop-key, after putting on the window-shutters, Nanse and I, out of goodfellowship, thought we could not do less than ask the honest man, whose cleverality had diverted us so much, to sit still and take a chack of supper;
I protest, it is to me the most difficult of things to write to one of your female - geniuses — there is a certain degree of cleverality (if I may so call it), an easy kind of derangement of periods, a gentleman-like — fashionable - careless — see-saw of dialogue — which I know no more of than you do of cruelty.
Related Words
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