All 4 Uses of
ingenuity
in
The House of Mirth
- It was apparently Trenor himself who had been occupying the seat in question, for it was overhung by a cloud of cigar smoke, and near it stood one of those intricate folding tables which British ingenuity has devised to facilitate the circulation of tobacco and spirits.†
Chpt 1.13
- Its modest "effects," compact of enamel paint and ingenuity, spoke to him in the language just then sweetest to his ear.†
Chpt 1.14 *
- Selden evinced an extraordinary interest in her household arrangements: complimented her on the ingenuity with which she had utilized every inch of her small quarters, asked how her servant managed about afternoons out, learned that one may improvise delicious dinners in a chafing-dish, and uttered thoughtful generalizations on the burden of a large establishment.†
Chpt 1.14
- Carry had in fact come dangerously near to being involved in the episode of Mrs. Norma Hatch, and it had taken some verbal ingenuity to extricate herself.†
Chpt 2.10
Definition:
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(ingenuity) the ability to solve problems in smart creative ways