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.
- Trae said, "He is described as a shrewd man and an astute judge of character."
- Scrimgeour stopped too, leaned on his stick and stared at Harry, his expression shrewd now.
- His face was long and thin, his expression shrewd and good-natured, his limbs were long and ungainly.
- The company is known as a shrewd operator, able to extract efficiencies and savings at every level of business.
- "The home conversation was rich in shrewd remarks, bright with playfulness and humour and occasional flashes of wit."
- But Manning claims it was Katherine, not Joe, who gave Michael Jackson his business sense, which he described as shrewd and fair.
- As reports, brother Saif, 40, is known as a shrewd operator and canny businessman, while 39-year-old Saadi enjoyed a brief Italian soccer career.
- Inclined toward Communism to meet the social and political demands of his teeming peoples, he does not openly break with the West in shrewd calculation that only thence can flow the capital and technical know-how to ensure his country's economic survival and its development.