Ingenious and Telling

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Ingenious adjective - Having the skill and imagination to create new things.

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Telling and ingenious are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Telling" instead an adjective "Ingenious".

Nearby Words: ingenuity, ingeniously

Telling adjective - Having the power to persuade.

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Ingenious and telling are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Ingenious" instead an adjective "Telling".

Nearby Words: tell, teller, telly

Humans Kill Wantonly: Lucius Black seems to have this view of mortals, telling Lennox that "the most ingenious inventions of mankind were devised for the sole purpose of killing people more quickly".

Source: Video Game / Infernal
It's fairly ingenious as the other videos (except "Meet the Sandvich") have the RED members talk about themselves, which would be out of character for a Spy; telling it from the other perspective maintains the mysterious nature of the RED Spy.

Source: Machinima / Team Fortress 2
Admiral Roland lampshades this in the fifth book by pointing out how this verges on Lawful Stupid: he could have sent a discreet letter to Napoleon anyone in France telling them where to get the curative mushrooms; someone as ingenious as Napoleon could easily have bribed a servant for a sample.

Source: Honor Before Reason / Literature

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