streetwise
IPA: strˈitwaɪz
adjective
- Having the necessary knack, personality and instinct for survival in rough, urban environments.
- Possessing a style that embodies the life and microculture located within urban settings, typically in the States.
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Examples of "streetwise" in Sentences
- Maybe it made us all streetwise.
- He's also very sharp and streetwise.
- Rodney is not as streetwise as his brother.
- Their music was sharper and more streetwise.
- I listened to hip hop for streetwise education.
- I rewrote most of it in a jaunty and streetwise style.
- Streetwise came with the radar and left hand for Defensor.
- Streetwise made no more significant appearances after this.
- Brooke on the other hand is streetwise and not to be messed with.
- Myxolydia Tyler as Camae is frolicsome, foul, sassy, loveable and streetwise.
- Seems to me that as "streetwise" as some of us are in some ways, we're still surprisingly trusting in others.
- I worked with inner city kids for about three years after high school, and many had the tough "streetwise" bravado that Jason talked about above.
- At the same time, a team of people living with the diseases will be conducting a 'streetwise' survey to further ascertain what the community considers a priority for action.
- WASHINGTON -- Republican Party chairman Michael Steele defended his stewardship of party affairs Monday and dismissed criticism as the talk of GOP figures uncomfortable with his "streetwise" managerial style.
- It was July 11, his 95th birthday, and he was being straddled from behind by a man in a bright cobalt-blue suit, with a salt-and-pepper mustache and the kind of streetwise Italian-American accent that persists more vigorously in acting classes than on the streets of Soho.
- The way he said the word 'streetwise' made her tense as though sustaining a blow, as though some how the words had held an insult, a gibe; and yet when she looked at him the grey eyes were still smiling, the relaxed bulk of the male body carelessly at ease, so that she knew she must have imagined the toughness, the threat which she had momentarily felt lay beneath the words.