ingenious

• Tom Tyers, (for so he familiarly called our ingenious friend, who, since his death, has paid a biographical tribute to his memory [221],) Tom Tyers described me the best. —  Life of Johnson
• The life writer abovementioned has preserved a fragment of Mr. Butler's, given by one whom he calls the ingenious Mr. Aubrey, who assured him he had it from the poet himself; it is indeed admirable, and the satire sufficiently pungent against the priests. —  The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland
• Your little mercurial disquisition is ingenious, and prettily told. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr
• With these the English word ingenious has an obvious connection, especially in its earlier use as applied to men of letters. —  Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic
• D.W.] — the cheat was thought so ingenious, and being the first time they could ever trap him in it, and so little hurt to any man in it, the money being as good as commonly goes. —  The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1663

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