ingenuity
/ˌɪnd͡ʒəˈn(j)uːəti/ noun C1- The ability to solve difficult problems in original, clever, and inventive ways; ingeniousness. · The pyramids demonstrate the ingenuity of the ancient Egyptians.· Poverty is the mother of ingenuity.
- An ingenuous action or thought.
Plural ingenuities
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I must say, Watson, that there is a certain devilish ingenuity about it, even if the queer name of the tenant did give him an opening which he could hardly have expected.
“When I recovered I managed, by a device which had perhaps some little merit of ingenuity, to get old Cunningham to write the word ‘twelve,’ so that I might compare it with the ‘twelve’ upon the paper.”
Beppo did not despair, and he conducted his search with considerable ingenuity and perseverance.
But the case is this:--we are not rich enough or grand enough for them; and she is the more anxious to get Miss Darcy for her brother, from the notion that when there has been _one_ inter-marriage, she may have less trouble in achieving a second; in which there is certainly some ingenuity, and I dare say it would succeed if Miss de Bourgh were out of the way.
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