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clever at doing something
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If you are clever at doing something, you do it in a skilful way:
It's not always the most capable people who are in charge of business, often it's just those who are clever at playing the political game.
She's always been cleverer than me at pleading her case when asking for a pay rise .
Six-year-old Sam is very clever at getting his brother into trouble.
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clever
The company has always been clever at knowing when not to fiddle with a successful product.
He has got very clever at hiding his plans from me.
My sister is very clever at finding the most amazing bargains.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Intelligence
acuity
acumen
agility
apt
aptness
brain
gumption
highbrow
horse sense
hyper-intelligent
imaginative
perceptively
percipient
percipiently
perspicacious
perspicaciously
perspicacity
profundity
whip-smart
wisdom
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