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1. His plots are always very ingenious.
2. The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest.
3. All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous.
4. The success of Mr. Sowerberry's ingenious speculation, exceeded even his most sanguine hopes.
5. Do not certain ingenious philosophers teach this doctrine, and ought not we to be grateful to them?

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 Meanings and Examples of INGENIOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ingenious
 a.  clever; having inventive or cunning mind
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  For, although an ingenious Allegory relating to a butcher, a three-legged stool, a dog, and a leg of mutton, this narrative consumed time; and they were in great suspense.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI
2  'You'll make your fortune, Mr. Sowerberry,' said the beadle, as he thrust his thumb and forefinger into the proffered snuff-box of the undertaker: which was an ingenious little model of a patent coffin.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
3  The success of Mr. Sowerberry's ingenious speculation, exceeded even his most sanguine hopes.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  His ingenious mind instantly suggested a way by which the baronet could be done to death, and yet it would be hardly possible to bring home the guilt to the real murderer.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
5  If so, it must have been one of those ingenious secret codes which mean one thing while they seem to mean another.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
6  He was a man of good family and of great ability, but of incurably vicious habits, who had by an ingenious system of fraud obtained huge sums of money from the leading London merchants.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott"
7  The Editor wanted that explained to him, and the Psychologist volunteered a wooden account of the 'ingenious paradox and trick' we had witnessed that day week.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In II
8  I was to discover the atrocious folly of this proceeding, but it came to my mind as an ingenious move for covering our retreat.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  Their departure, with the ingenious manner in which they and their sheep were hoisted over the mountains, was a splendid spectacle.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
10  "That will attract purchasers," said the ingenious editor.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
11  The most ingenious is, at times, the wisest.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOUR AND FOUR
12  It was from this slender capital, enlisted in the service of an ingenious idea, developed by method and thought, that he had drawn his own fortune, and the fortune of the whole countryside.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER I—THE HISTORY OF A PROGRESS IN BLACK GLASS TRINKE...
13  He was ingenious; he had forestalled Soulange Bodin in the formation of little clumps of earth of heath mould, for the cultivation of rare and precious shrubs from America and China.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
14  All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
15  There was in Paris at that epoch, in a low-lived old lodging in the Rue Beautreillis, near the Arsenal, an ingenious Jew whose profession was to change villains into honest men.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
Example Sentence:
1  Do not certain ingenious philosophers teach this doctrine, and ought not we to be grateful to them?
2  The state police nail a cracker called Phate who's using his ingenious program, Trapdoor, to lure innocent victims to their death by infiltrating their computers.
3  The new tower is a unique mix of a distinctive form, ingenious structure, and spatial qualities of sky-high living.
4  His plots are always very ingenious.
5  Mr. Richter could have focused on the Indians of the Ohio River, who ingeniously played off Britain and France for more than a century.