Clever
Clever adjective - Showing a noteworthy use of the imagination and creativity especially in inventing.
Thin and clever are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Thin" instead an adjective "Clever".
Nearby Words: cleverness, cleverly
Both words in one sentence
- This was pretty clever in his original miniseries, but his addition to the mainstream comics ended up running the joke so thin it wasn't even a joke anymore.
Source: Character Shilling - Kiekeboe is long and thin, Charlotte is a Damsel in Distress and most of the comedy is more like a typical children's comic strip of that time, with a lot of unneccessary exposition and not so clever puns as in later stories.
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Among the concepts that walk the infamous thin line between "clever" and "stupid" are a German ninja, a giant robot mummy, and a martial arts master who takes off his sash and uses it to slash an enemy robot in half.
Source: Rule of Cool
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