Clever
Clever adjective - Showing a noteworthy use of the imagination and creativity especially in inventing.
Twisting and clever are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Twisting" instead an adjective "Clever".
Nearby Words: cleverness, cleverly
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Both words in one sentence
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In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, Tzeentch utilizes cheap insults and clever word-twisting to win Magnus over to his side, using sorcerer's own pride and hatred of Emperor's other children, especially Leman Russ.
Source: I Shall Taunt You - Anthony's speech sounds like it's going to be this ("I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him") but by clever twisting of his words he turns the assembled people against Caesar's killers.
Source: Speak Ill of the Dead
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Twisting and Clever. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/clever/twisting
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