Cleverer
['klɛvɚ]
Examples
- He thought it very well done of Mr. Knightley to invite themvery kind and sensiblemuch cleverer than dining out. Jane Austen. Emma.
- We are all scoundrels more or less, only some are cleverer at concealing it than other people, he said carelessly. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I am ten times cleverer than many men who pass. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Inventors and discoverers came by nature, they thought, for cleverer people to profit by. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Be infinitely cleverer and not half so conceited. Jane Austen. Emma.
- I am not prepared with any arguments to disprove them, and much better, cleverer fellows than I am go in for them entirely. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But I am a just man even to my enemy, and I will acknowledge beforehand that they are cleverer brains than I thought them. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- For my own part, I like a medical man more on a footing with the servants; they are often all the cleverer. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Cleverer heads than mine might have seen his drift. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Every one knows you're a thousand times handsomer and cleverer than Bertha; but then you're not nasty. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I am a thousand times cleverer and more charming than that creature, for all her wealth. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He was a thousand times better informed and cleverer than Wemmick, and yet I would a thousand times rather have had Wemmick to dinner. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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