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单词 silly-clever
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silly-clever
silly-clever adj. silly and clever at the same time; having or showing intelligence or learning whilst lacking wisdom or common sense; cf. clever-clever adj.
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1864 C. Clarke & M.C. Clarke Cassell's Illustr. Shakespeare III. 278/1 (footnote) ‘Shrewd’ here comprises the sense of ‘mischievous’ as well as that of ‘silly clever’.
1946 ‘G. Orwell’ in Polemic Sept. 8 Innumerable silly-clever Conservatives..like Sir Alan Herbert, Professor G. M. Young, Lord Elton.
1963 Economist 11 May 538/1 Mr Khrushchev's silly-clever forward pass in Cuba.
2010 Daily Disp. (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 6 Oct. History is full of silly-clever gentlemen who knew what was best for the benighted masses.
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