Usually means: Skillfully using intelligence or creativity.
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  1. cleverly: Merriam-Webster
  2. cleverly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cleverly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. cleverly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Cleverly, cleverly: Wordnik
  6. cleverly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Cleverly, cleverly: Wiktionary
  8. Cleverly, cleverly: Dictionary.com
  9. cleverly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Cleverly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Cleverly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. cleverly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. cleverly: Rhymezone
  14. Cleverly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. cleverly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. CLEVERLY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  17. cleverly: FreeDictionary.org
  18. cleverly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. cleverly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cleverly: Legal dictionary

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  1. cleverly: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Cleverly)

▸ adverb:  Wittily; in a tricky manner.
▸ adverb:  Intelligently directed to a purpose.
▸ adverb:  (now US dialect) Completely, fully.
▸ noun:  A surname from Old English.

Similar:
smartly, cleverishly, wittily, facetely, cunningly, wilily, trickily, trickishly, trickingly, tricksily, more...

Opposite:
stupidly, unintelligently, foolishly, ineptly, clumsily

Phrases:
James Cleverly, Nathan Cleverly, cleverly skillful, cleverly amusing, cleverly devised, more...

Colors:
    silver,     teal,     sage,     indigo,     emerald, more...



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Similar:
smartly, cleverishly, wittily, facetely, cunningly, wilily, trickily, trickishly, trickingly, tricksily, more...

Opposite:
stupidly, unintelligently, foolishly, ineptly, clumsily

Phrases:
James Cleverly, Nathan Cleverly, cleverly skillful, cleverly amusing, cleverly devised, cleverly ironic, cleverly intricate, cleverly shrewd, cleverly evasive, cleverly hidden, more...

Colors:
    silver,     teal,     sage,     indigo,     emerald, more...



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