Both Uses of
ingenious
in
The Bell Jar
- I thought it was quite ingenious of me to suggest sitting in on the chemistry course even after I'd changed over to Shakespeare.†
Chpt 3 *
- And as she stretched out on my bed with a silly smile, I remembered a minor scandal at our college dormitory when a fat, matronly-breasted senior, homely as a grandmother and a pious Religion major, and a tall, gawky freshman with a history of being deserted at an early hour in all sorts of ingenious ways by her blind dates, started seeing too much of each other.†
Chpt 18
Definition:
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(ingenious) showing cleverness and originality