Both Uses
ingenious
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
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- But the word of Mr Costello was an unwelcome language for him for he nauseated the wretch that seemed to him a cropeared creature of a misshapen gibbosity, born out of wedlock and thrust like a crookback toothed and feet first into the world, which the dint of the surgeon's pliers in his skull lent indeed a colour to, so as to put him in thought of that missing link of creation's chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.†
Chpt 14 *
- An ingenious suggestion is that thrown out by Mr V. Lynch (Bacc.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(ingenious) showing cleverness and originality
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)