English
Etymology
Reduplication of clever.
Pronunciation
IPA|/�kl�v�kl�v�/
Adjective
en-adj
- pejorative Showily or ostentatiously clever.
#*1994: The difference between clever-clever talk and the appearance of a real awareness is desperately fine, and I do not guarantee to be right in my diagnosis every time. � Christmas Humphreys, Zen Comes West (Routledge 1994, p. 107)
#*2000: He is not merely clever but �clever-clever�, and he cannot forget that it was during his previous term at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Denmark kept out of the 1914-18 war... � Michael Stenton, Radio London and Resistance in Occupied Europe (OUP 2000, p. 251)
#*2007: You used to know where you stood with musicals. There were the old traditionals with scores by Rodgers and Hammerstein; the clever-clever shows with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim; and the bombastic 'supermusicals', with sub-operatic numbers. � Sarah Hughes, The Observer 15 July 2007
ru:clever-clever
vi:clever-clever
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