Shrewd
adjective
Having or showing sharp powers of judgement, clever and practical.
He was shrewd enough to guess the motive behind my suggestion.
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- shrewd businessperson
- shrewd investment
adjective
Marked by practical hard-headed intelligence.
A shrewd manager will recognize the talents of his team.
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- shrewd decision
- shrewd understanding
adjective
Being alert or clever in practical matters.
She is a shrewd judge of character.
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- shrewd move
- shrewd negotiator
adjective
Having or showing sharp powers of judgement, clever and practical.
He was shrewd enough to guess the motive behind my suggestion.
Often appears as...
- shrewd businessperson
- shrewd investment
adjective
Marked by practical hard-headed intelligence.
A shrewd manager will recognize the talents of his team.
Often appears as...
- shrewd decision
- shrewd understanding
adjective
Being alert or clever in practical matters.
She is a shrewd judge of character.
Often appears as...
- shrewd move
- shrewd negotiator
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Business Context
Often used to describe people with good business sense or strategies.
His shrewd investments helped him retire early.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Connotation
Implies admiration for someone's ability to make good judgements.
Her shrewd analysis won the team's respect.
Pro Tip 3/3Suggests Intention
The word hints at purposeful and deliberate decision-making.
He's shrewd when it comes to choosing friends.
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and speaks to the universal fear of becoming paralyzed by the prospect of making the wrong choice. Although she considered other careers, Plath chose the artist’s way. Poetry was her calling. Under her shrewd eye and pen,
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Beware, fellow...
affordable healthcare, paid sick leave, and the progressive taxation necessary to pay for the important infrastructure necessary for the middle class like education, R and D, these are indispensable tools shrewd capitalists should embrace
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Five Pirate Myths That...
flare black barks had himself holding an hourglass with the devil captain lows had a blood red skeleton stand in authority and Christopher Moody's flag was so colorful it became known as the bloody red but pirates were shrewd
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Why should you read...
and speaks to the universal fear of becoming paralyzed by the prospect of making the wrong choice. Although she considered other careers, Plath chose the artist’s way. Poetry was her calling. Under her shrewd eye and pen,
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Jackie Robinson
American Baseball Player
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.
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Lewis Thomas
American Scientist
Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.
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Michael Dirda
American Critic
I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite.
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Joshua Slocum
Canadian Explorer
They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.
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Rod Stewart
English Musician
I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
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Charles Horton Cooley
American Sociologist
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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Ralph Macchio
American Actor
Sometimes I wish I was more shrewd.
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Maurice Sendak
American Artist
Kids are so shrewd.
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Jackie Robinson
American Baseball Player
I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Gore Vidal
American Novelist
My father once said something very shrewd about me to a woman journalist who had told him how courageous she thought I was for always speaking my mind. My father said, 'If you couldn't care less what anyone says about you, then it's not courage.
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Lewis Thomas
American Scientist
Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.
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Michael Dirda
American Critic
I find that the Amazon comments often are exceptionally shrewd and insightful, so I'm not going to diss them. But you don't really have any guarantees that what you're reading wasn't written out of friendship or spite.
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Joshua Slocum
Canadian Explorer
They made a shrewd guess that I could give them some useful information, and they were the first to meet me. Some one said they came to arrest me, and - well, let it go at that.
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Rod Stewart
English Musician
I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
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Charles Horton Cooley
American Sociologist
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
American Philosopher
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
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Ralph Macchio
American Actor
Sometimes I wish I was more shrewd.
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Maurice Sendak
American Artist
Kids are so shrewd.
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