Both Uses of
ingenious
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- But the word of Mr Costello was an unwelcome language for him for he nauseated the wretch that seemed to him a cropeared creature of a misshapen gibbosity, born out of wedlock and thrust like a crookback toothed and feet first into the world, which the dint of the surgeon's pliers in his skull lent indeed a colour to, so as to put him in thought of that missing link of creation's chain desiderated by the late ingenious Mr Darwin.†
Chpt 14 *
- An ingenious suggestion is that thrown out by Mr V. Lynch (Bacc.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
showing cleverness and originality