INGENIOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ingeniously mean? 

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

1. in an ingenious manner

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INGENIOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an ingenious manner

Context example:

a Hampshire farmer had fowls of different breeds, including Dorkings, and he discriminated ingeniously between the 'dark ones' and the 'white ones'

 Context examples 

He was the son of Mr. Weston—he was continually here—I always found him very pleasant—and, in short, for (with a sigh) let me swell out the causes ever so ingeniously, they all centre in this at last—my vanity was flattered, and I allowed his attentions.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Norris had now so ingeniously done away all Mrs. Grant's part of the favour, that Fanny, who found herself expected to speak, could only say that she was very much obliged to her aunt Bertram for sparing her, and that she was endeavouring to put her aunt's evening work in such a state as to prevent her being missed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

For nature (as the physicians allege) having intended the superior anterior orifice only for the intromission of solids and liquids, and the inferior posterior for ejection, these artists ingeniously considering that in all diseases nature is forced out of her seat, therefore, to replace her in it, the body must be treated in a manner directly contrary, by interchanging the use of each orifice; forcing solids and liquids in at the anus, and making evacuations at the mouth.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)