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Discover LudwigThe phrase "awfully clever" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that is surprisingly or impressively clever, often with a hint of irony or sarcasm.
Example: "Her solution to the problem was awfully clever, turning a complex issue into a simple fix."
Alternatives: "remarkably clever" or "incredibly clever.".
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It's awfully clever this, eh?
Not only that, but he has clever advisers, and heads an awfully clever ministry full of awfully clever officials.
The captain's wife who is awfully clever about clothes, considering that she has no money.
Sir Tristram thinks it's awfully clever to travel incognito as Sir Tramtrist.
"I think his poems called Just Folks are awfully, awfully clever".
On these pages I am surrounded by young people — best schools, terrific colleges, awfully clever.
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The squid-ink agnolotti with peekytoe crab was certainly clever, though awfully fishy.
It's awfully tempting.
He'll have to run awfully fast, and be diabolically clever, to avoid sharing their fate.
He's got awfully low bandwidth". Simple sells; clever crashes, says Allan Metcalf, author of "Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success" and executive secretary of the American Dialect Society.
Awfully good stuff it is, indeed, in Christopher Luscombe's clever revival.
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