All 5 Uses of
ingenious
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- Whereas now—well, it was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains, and metal parts.†
Chpt 5
- She could not stoop for a ball on the tennis court—I standing stiff in a foulard with brown horses on a green background that was ingeniously slipped through a handcarved wooden ring which Renling made popular that season in Evanston—I couldn't witness this, I say, without a push of love and worship in my bowels at the curve of her lips, and triumphant maiden shape behind, and soft, protected secret.†
Chpt 8
- And I behaved ingeniously too.†
Chpt 8 *
- The Neapolitan passersby grinned and smarted, longing and ironical as they read this ingenious challenge.†
Chpt 13
- I don't recall what ingenious person made this collection, but it certainly was a whopper.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
showing cleverness and originality