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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