Both Uses of
ingenious
in
Pride and Prejudice
- They attacked him in various ways—with barefaced questions, ingenious suppositions, and distant surmises; but he eluded the skill of them all, and they were at last obliged to accept the second-hand intelligence of their neighbor, Lady Lucas.†
p. 11.2 *
- But on returning to the drawing-room, when her letter was finished, she saw, to her infinite surprise, there was reason to fear that her mother had been too ingenious for her.†
p. 327.6
Definition:
showing cleverness and originality