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Example sentences for "smartness"

Lexicographically close words:
smarter; smartest; smarting; smartish; smartly; smarts; smartweed; smarty; smash; smashed
  1. Not having an answer of the needful smartness as ready as I could have wished, I tried to gain time by asking him what cottage he wanted to go to.

  2. Great head, Tubby," chuckled the other, as if amused at this unexpected smartness on the part of the stout boy.

  3. If he be capable of smartness of any kind, moral or physical, he has a faculty of concealing it which is truly marvellous.

  4. She took off the little black toque which sat on her bright head with an alien smartness to which she was now accustomed, and forced herself to look in the glass while she pinned up a stray lock of hair.

  5. The undergraduate was a tall boy of just twenty, with a pale, gentle face and dressed with the ultra-smartness of a youth who is "in the swim" at Leiden.

  6. Smartness will have to come down before I'm a purchaser.

  7. But notwithstanding the smartness of their pace, they did not seem to come much nearer to the top of the hill.

  8. If it is not destined, neither wisdom nor strength nor smartness are of any avail.

  9. Benny showed us his smartness and his quick-wittedness so long, until our pockets were empty.

  10. It ain't my business to put you wise, but I'll tell you this: neither noise nor smartness is good enough for Hallowell and Smiths'.

  11. Smartness took the full count the fall before last; we're pushing these funny stunts underground where they belong.

  12. Englishmen resent a smartness as a liberty: the man who tries a jest in their company has been guilty of a freedom not pardonable.

  13. It is deplorably bad: the attempts at fun and smartness positively painful.

  14. But the priest, of course, knew a little more of that smartness than the rest of the people.

  15. Eboulements, soon gained the favour of the whole people by his good and winning manners, and every parishioner complimented his curate on the smartness of his new servant.

  16. It may be that an appearance of elegance or smartness is aimed at which may be the natural attribute of some persons and the envy of others, or a false idea of symmetry may lead to the same thing.

  17. It is not a becoming one, though sometimes a smartness is imparted to it that is a little out of keeping with the idea of mourning.

  18. This was very "smart," but smartness is a quality not much appreciated on this side of the Atlantic.

  19. A better specimen of American smartness and Chinese astuteness could hardly be conceived than this crafty and fallacious clause.

  20. One consequence of this metamorphosis was that henceforward all military smartness of bearing and movement had to be dropped, for in order to be able to play our parts properly we must gradually accustom ourselves to tramp-ship ways.

  21. Spring days came, and with them the great race-meetings, at which everyone with any pretensions to smartness put in an appearance.

  22. The lock of genius had been the fashion in the Upper Prima, and was assiduously cultivated by all who didn't aspire to the smartness of a Students' Corps.

  23. The English probably tire of their own snobbishness and flunkeyism, and we of our own smartness and puppyism.

  24. The smartness and knowingness and a certain hardness or keenness of our city youths,--there was no trace of it at all in this young Cockney.

  25. The great charm of such a man as Darwin, for instance, is his simple manliness and transparent good faith, and the absence in him of that finical, self-complacent smartness which is the bane of our literature.

  26. The gentleman, pleased with the smartness of the dog, and perhaps desirous of ridding his fellow-citizens of annoyance and expense, purchased the animal and took him home.

  27. His instinct seems to rise on some occasions almost to the level of our practical reasoning, and the stories which are told of his smartness are very many indeed.

  28. He swung a cane as he stumped along, and there was a sort of faded smartness in his bearing and a knowingness in his grim old visage, indicating some incongruous familiarity with the manners of the great world.

  29. But there is nothing attractive in new nastiness, in the vulgar union of smartness and filth.

  30. It may be her mission to show the world a social order free from the forward independence and smartness of which she has been accused, and yet relieved of the dull stiffness of the older forms.

  31. And to say the truth, the new element of Southern smartness lacks the trim thrift the North is familiar with; though the visitor who needs relaxation is not disposed to quarrel with the easy-going terms on which life is taken.

  32. Possibly no intelligent person was deceived, but in the estimation of the mass of the people the Spectrum increased its reputation for enterprise and smartness and gave also an impression of its fairness.

  33. This sort of facility and smartness may get a writer employment, unfortunately for him and the public, but there is no satisfaction in it to one who desires an honorable career.

  34. We still punish those who gain property by violence; those who get it by smartness and cleverness, we try to imitate, and sometimes we reward them with public office.

  35. If a female acquaintance happens to pass, he touches his jockey cap, and bows, accomplishing this courtesy with a certain smartness that proves him a man of the world.

  36. So that the smartness of a Reply, which has its beauty by coming from sudden thoughts, seems lost by that which rather looks like a Design of two, than the Answer of one.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smartness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acuity; agility; alacrity; aptitude; attention; banter; brightness; brilliance; chic; cleverness; dexterity; dispatch; elegance; esprit; expedition; facetiousness; flair; flippancy; fooling; genius; gift; grinning; hissing; ingenuity; jeering; jocularity; joking; joshing; keenness; leering; levity; mockery; neatness; nimbleness; nous; panache; panning; pleasantry; promptness; punctuality; pungency; quickness; raillery; readiness; roasting; savvy; scoffing; sharpness; sleeplessness; smarts; style; swiftness; talent; taunting; twitting; wit