Smartness
['smɑrtnɪs]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being smart.
Typist: Norton
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Sharpness, keenness, poignancy, pungency.[2]. Vigor, force, energy.[3]. Liveliness, briskness, vivacity, agility, nimbleness, quickness, alertness, spryness, activity, sprightliness.[4]. Expertness, dexterity, cleverness.[5]. Wit, wittiness, acuteness, aptness.[6]. Spruceness, trimness.
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Examples
- I recollect this same chambermaid was a pattern of town prettiness and smartness. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- As the little man concluded, he took an emphatic pinch of snuff, as a tribute to the smartness of Messrs. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Not having an answer of the needful smartness as ready as I could have wished, I tried to gain time by asking him what cottage he wanted to go to. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- There was a rakish, vagabond smartness, and a kind of boastful rascality, about the whole man, that was worth a mine of gold. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Each vied with the other in smartness and daintiness of dress, and many handsome forms were seen amongst the younger ones. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Well--partly, no doubt, Miss Bart's desire to get back to bridge and smartness. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I have betrayed thee with my lack of smartness. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Really all the soldiering and smartness in the world in the father seems to count for nothing in forming the nater of the son. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Same Buffer inquires with smartness, 'What of? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I think you'll have to take off a couple of hundred for his smartness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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