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ingenious

(= clever, cunning) showing inventiveness and skill a clever gadget the cunning maneuvers leading to his success an ingenious solution to the problem

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Simple sentences

Wanting to protect me from myself is about as ingenious as saving a fish from drowning.
This species of moth has evolved an ingenious camouflage for blending into its surroundings.
That's ingenious.
This is very ingenious.
This is extremely ingenious.
This is utterly ingenious.

Movie subtitles

A very ingenious and welcome tried idea.
Oh, and by the way, don't get the ingenious idea of selling me out to the American authorities.
Speaking of fireplaces, Mr. Yardley I'd like to show you a little ingenious thing I've invented.
You shook me at first with your ingenious theories.
Very ingenious, captain.
O, treble woe fall ten times treble on that cursed head whose wicked deed thy most ingenious sense deprived thee of.
Ingenious worker, ain't he, Oliver? Very indeed, sir.
Could he but see within the package, he would find an ingenious little device. Set, so that when the clock is like this. Peter Pan will be blasted out of Never Land forever.
Sol it's very ingenious, Cal.
Very ingenious Did you think of it?
Well, it's an ingenious idea, of course.
Very ingenious.
Mr Vogler has, in an ingenious way developed and perfected the science of animal magnetism.
An ingenious plan.
It's quite ingenious.
Coming up very soon is one of the most ingenious but complicated travelling-matte shots in the film.
He was rather clever and ingenious, this Anderson.
So, I'm presenting the ingenious but fickle Mr. Holmes with two toys, in the order in which I mean him to have them.
A most ingenious device.
And a more ingenious detective.
How ingenious.
I was looking for something ingenious.
This is ingenious.
Very ingenious, Mr. Holmes.
Alfred Pettibone is a most ingenious fellow.
Ingenious, isn't it?
Ingenious but uninspired.
Ingenious! My compliments to the boys in the code department.
An ingenious artist.
Isn't it great? Isn't it ingenious?
Perhaps it wasn't only ingenious - it's long too.
Could he but see within the package. he would find an ingenious little device.
Very ingenious. - And risk-free.
If Gloria could believe that this blackmailer was a gigolo. who always needed money. and has found an ingenious way to get it.
The shrewdest, cleverest, most ingenious criminal in all the world.
Very ingenious, if I'm right.
Two days to think of something really ingenious.

News and current affairs

Rather, through a combination of ingenious software and massive parallel computing power, they had produced a silicon-based entity capable of such finesse and subtlety, that international chess grandmasters worldwide (including me) were simply amazed.
Although the world's central banks and finance ministries have been devising many ingenious and innovative policies to stimulate credit, so far they have not had much success.
It is the failure of the UK government to amend the statute that dictates the complex structure of knockouts that the BoE's ingenious staff has been obliged to devise.
Argentina's 1990's neo-liberal program was nearly idiot-proof, according to this view, but Argentine politicians turned out to form a large and ingenious class of idiots.
Realizing that no single group is powerful enough to impose its habits on others, Nigeria's peoples are working out ingenious ways to accommodate one another's differences.
Or will you pull back and find some ingenious way to save the bank and protect its creditors using public money or the Federal Reserve or some other emergency power?
Such factors of inertia are systemic: they cannot be overcome internally by some ingenious system of majority voting.
The central proposal was ingenious: the Kremlin proposed to guarantee the election's fairness by installing webcams at all polling stations; every citizen could personally monitor the voting process.
But the protesters are ingenious: they echoed what I said through the crowd, so that all could hear.
Animals, he maintained, are merely ingenious mechanisms, and we should not take their cries and struggles as a sign of pain, any more than we take the sound of an alarm clock as a sign that it has consciousness.
But they tend to be ingenious at developing glamorous new areas from little towns within an hour's commute from major cities.
The Commission should not be allowed to get away with this ingenious plan.
The decision to establish the EU was an ingenious response to the biggest challenge of the day - war and conflict.
Many and ingenious have been the attempts to split the difference.
Every few months, European governments launch a new and ever more ingenious initiative to resolve the eurozone's debt crisis.
However, thanks to a simple but ingenious innovation by an emerging bioscience company, those numbers could become a relic of the past, like mortality from smallpox and bubonic plague.
But they tend to be ingenious at developing glamorous new areas from little towns within an hour's commute from major cities. It happens in so many places and so regularly that we take it for granted and rarely even notice it.
Alas, almost none of Burma's gas revenues actually feed into its budget, owing to a rather ingenious device employed by the Burmese junta.

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