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showing cleverness and originality- It is an ingenious solution to the problem. It is as reliable as it is easy.
ingenious = showing cleverness and originality
- The first person to put wheels on a suitcase had an ingenious idea.
- an ingenious device
- an ingenious press agent
- ...they invented some of the machines that have since troubled the world, especially the ingenious devices for killing large numbers of people at once,J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit
- The life rafts were ingenious things, packed into small bundles in the ship's hull.Kenneth Oppel -- Airborn
- Their departure, with the ingenious manner in which they and their sheep were hoisted over the mountains, was a splendid spectacle.Voltaire -- Candide
- Ernest at length hit upon an ingenious plan.Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
- The method of the theft was not less ingenious than bold.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter
- When a fox wants to den up, he will use ingenious tricks to throw off the hounds.Forest Carter -- Education of Little Tree
- It was most ingeniously secured at vacant hours ... so that though a thief might get in with perfect ease, he would find some embarrassment in getting outWashington Irving -- The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- ... when Mother realized that after she's dead, she won't be able to tell me what to wear anymore, she came up with this ingenious postmortem system.Kathryn Stockett -- The Help
- "Yeah, very ingenious, Hermione."J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- It was ingenious and finally, I saw, all wise.Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
- He had something in reserve, some ingenious product of his counselor's wits that would overwhelm their scheme.John Gardner -- Grendel
- Let's see how ingenious you are.Rick Riordan -- The Battle of the Labyrinth
- Human beings are remarkably ingenious,Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
- They are an ingenious people,Ernest Hemingway -- A Farewell to Arms
- In the pickling of hams they had an ingenious apparatus, by which they saved time and increased the capacity of the
plantUpton Sinclair -- The Jungle - I thought about explaining to her my mother's ingenious method of ridding the house of roaches—cracker crumbs and marshmallow—but then I thought...Sue Monk Kidd -- The Secret Life of Bees
ingenious = clever and original
ingenious = inventive
ingenious = showing cleverness and originality
ingenious = inventive and skillful
ingenious = showing cleverness and originality
ingenious = showing cleverness and originality
ingenious = inventive and skillful
ingeniously = skillfully and showing inventiveness
ingenious = showing cleverness and originality
ingenious = showing cleverness and originality
ingenious = clever (showing inventiveness and skill)
ingenious = showing cleverness and originality
ingenious = inventive and skillful
ingenious = inventive and skillful
ingenious = inventive and skilled
ingenious = showing cleverness and originality
ingenious = showing cleverness and originality