Sentence examples for hardly clever from inspiring English sources

Hardly clever, it is only three words — an insult directed at the opposing goalkeeper — but enough to give M.L.S. officials fits as they hear it spill over into live television broadcasts.

But Ms. Lowery was hardly clever or calculating enough to bludgeon Ms. Stein to death without leaving behind any of her own DNA or getting her clothes stained with Ms. Stein's blood, Mr. Christie said in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

Many have pointed out that Joyce complaining that 'there are too many fucking Tories in this place' before headbutting one of them was hardly clever.

The goalkeeper hardly looked clever but United did not care; how they have merited another day in the limelight.

Vaughn and Goldman are working off a comic book by Mark Millar, who also provided source material for their similar (but hardly as clever) Kick-Ass.

Since such chips are, in essence, just static arrays of different chemical compounds, they hardly qualify as clever microsystems.

Similarly, Jason's displays of writerly wisdom are clever but hardly brain-rewiring: "Eavesdropping's sort of thrilling 'cause you learn what people really think, but eavesdropping makes you miserable for exactly the same reason".

Most resemble mathematical formulas: clever, perhaps, but hardly occasion for knee-slapping.

Clever one-upmanship but hardly accurate.

This is a significant increase, but it is hardly "remarkable".... Greenspan's theory is clever, but it doesn't fit all the facts.

It's a clever trick to differentiate, but hardly a new idea.