sagacious

IPA: sˈægˈeɪʃʌs

Having or showing keen discernment, sound judgment, and farsightedness; mentally shrewd.

Examples of "sagacious" in Sentences

All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is
He was a man of large wealth, and well known as a sagacious financier.
At least it could hardly be called sagacious generalship on the part of the stadholder.
All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is a less pleasing, but, in a bitter pinch, a more really useful, quality.
Forty years after Benjamin worked in Palmer's printing-office, he visited England in the service of his country, widely known as a sagacious statesman and profound philosopher.
Certain it is that the maid's speech communicated a suspicion to the mind of Amelia which the behaviour of the serjeant did not tend to remove: what that is, the sagacious readers may likewise probably suggest to themselves; if not, they must wait our time for disclosing it.
Wise business management, and more particularly what is spoken of as safe and sane business management, therefore, reduces itself in the main to a sagacious use of sabotage; that is to say a sagacious limitation of productive processes to something less than the productive capacity of the means in hand.