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Definition
showing cleverness and originality
- Mrs. Penniman desired to represent the ingenious Mr. Townsend as the hero.Chapter 7 (7% in)
ingenious = clever (inventive and skillful)
- Venture to appear as disinterested as you are!" said Mrs. Penniman ingeniously.Chapter 16 (67% in)
- Catherine was far from saying to herself that this was an ingenious sophism; but she met the appeal none the less squarely.Chapter 18 (45% in)
- She would try to appear good, even if her heart were perverted; and from time to time she had a fancy that she might accomplish something by ingenious concessions to form, though she should persist in caring for Morris.Chapter 19 (86% in)
- Here, suddenly, Morris was interrupted; these ingenious inquiries had not reached Catherine's ears.Chapter 20 (93% in)
- "I don't know!" said Catherine, less ingeniously than she had hitherto spoken.Chapter 31 (97% in)
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