clever

• And he's so clever, his nickname is “Loop-de-loop” for all the legal holes he finds. —  Magazine - Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - 2007-03 - March April
• The father-in-law of Tallien is a banker, what you call a clever fellow; another word, says the most sensible man here, for a cheat; the court and the clergy mutually support each other, and their combined despotism is indeed dreadful, yet much is doing; Jardine is very active; he has forwarded the establishment of schools in the Asturias with his Spanish friends. —  Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
• I thought this was about the cleverest acronym I'd ever heard -- clever, clever Stephanie -- and promptly started looking for a "seal generator" so that I could make our new club official. —  Grow Wings -- the Journal of Laini Taylor
• (Had they heretofore been pretending that no one of her description-clever, attractive, womanly, mother, wife, punchy conservative-existed?) —  Dartblog
• In what can only be described as a clever, unconventional diversion, Gordon-Levitt dances through the streets of Los Angeles in one of the most jubilant and fun numbers since Ferris Bueller serenaded us from the top of a float in downtown Chicago. —  Fat Guys at the Movies

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