a. [f. CLEVER a. + -ISH.] Somewhat clever. Hence Cleverishly, adv.

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1826.  Disraeli, Viv. Grey, II. ix. 49. A cleverish fellow. Ibid. (1844), Coningsby, I. ii. 11. A few cleverish speeches and a good many cleverish pamphlets.

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1833.  Macaulay, in Life & Lett. (1889), 242. They are the letters of a cleverish man.

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1881.  W. Thomson, Bacon, not Shaks., 2. Though evaders cleverishly conceal the fact.

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