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Inventively

Inventive \In*vent"ive\, a. [Cf. F. inventif.] Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius.
--Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.

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inventively

adv. In an inventive manner.

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inventively

adv. in an inventive manner; "Picasso's liberated shapes and excitingly applied and inventively combined colours"

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The thing that first made itself known as a little tale, usually salacious, dealing with conventionalized types and conventionalized incidents, has proved itself possibly the most flexible of all the literary forms in its adaptation to the needs of the mind that wishes to utter itself, inventively or constructively, upon some fresh occasion, or wishes briefly to criticise or represent some phase or fact of life.