CLEVERLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cleverly mean? 

• CLEVERLY (adverb)
  The adverb CLEVERLY has 1 sense:

1. in a clever manner

  Familiarity information: CLEVERLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CLEVERLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a clever manner

Synonyms:

cleverly; smartly

Context example:

a smartly managed business

Pertainym:

clever (showing self-interest and shrewdness in dealing with others)

 Context examples 

And where does Martin Eden and the work Martin Eden performed come in in all this? he asked himself plaintively, then arose to respond cleverly and wittily to a clever and witty toast.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Fortunately, Mercury in Pisces will get along beautifully with the planets stacking up in Capricorn, so you won’t encounter any obstacles that you can’t cleverly fix.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

So cleverly was the colonel concealed that, even when the Moriarty gang was broken up, we could not incriminate him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, he determined to manage more cleverly than his brother, and got together a rich present of gold and fine horses for the king; and thought he must have a much larger gift in return; for if his brother had received so much for only a turnip, what must his present be worth?

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Though his face was towards me, I thought, for some time, the writing being between us, that he could not see me; but looking that way more attentively, it made me uncomfortable to observe that, every now and then, his sleepless eyes would come below the writing, like two red suns, and stealthily stare at me for I dare say a whole minute at a time, during which his pen went, or pretended to go, as cleverly as ever.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was puzzled by countless short stories, written lightly and cleverly he confessed, but without vitality or reality.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was so cleverly stupid and unoriginal, and also so convincing, that the leaders cannot help but regard him as safe and sure, while his platitudes are so much like the platitudes of the average voter that—oh, well, you know you flatter any man by dressing up his own thoughts for him and presenting them to him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)