shrewd
IPA: ʃrˈud
adjective
- Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
- Artful, tricky or cunning.
- (informal) streetwise, street-smart.
- Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen.
- Nigh accurate.
- Severe, intense, hard.
- Sharp, snithy, piercing.
- (archaic) Bad, evil, threatening.
- (obsolete) Portending, boding.
- (archaic) Noxious, scatheful, mischievous.
- (obsolete) Abusive, shrewish.
- (archaic) Scolding, satirical, sharp.
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Examples of "shrewd" in Sentences
- He was a shrewd military general.
- He is cruel, emotionless and shrewd.
- She is known for her beauty and shrewdness.
- Any objection to replacing it with shrewdness
- Do not doubt the ability and shrewdness of the admins.
- The Arab, like all the Semites, is sharp minded and shrewd.
- The women manage the hamlets and are shrewd and intelligent.
- WIkipedia is turning into an escalating diorama of shrewdness.
- Do the Swedes understand that the paymeant terms are shrewd coercion tactics
- In spite of the odds, Asoka uses shrewd guerilla tactics to defeat the enemy.
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