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[ UK /sæɡˈe‍ɪʃəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. acutely insightful and wise
    a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators
    observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions
    much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument
  2. skillful in statecraft or management
    an astute and sagacious statesman

How To Use sagacious In A Sentence

  • All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is a less pleasing, but, in a bitter pinch, a more really useful, quality. Erema — My Father's Sin
  • But it is always a delicate matter to fathom the depth of a medical man's sagaciousness. Archibald Malmaison
  • Sharansky is not infallible, but he is probably the most sagacious voice in Israeli politics today.
  • Philippe Noiret, the sagacious French veteran, plays the mentor Alfredo in this life story of Salvatore "Toto" Di Vitto, a director manque' depicted as a child by Salvatore Cascio.
  • Animals civilise a building, and it is a pity that Mrs Blair, no cat-lover, was blamed for the dismissal of Humphrey, a dignified and sagacious mouser.
  • Certain it is that the maid's speech communicated a suspicion to the mind of Amelia which the behaviour of the serjeant did not tend to remove: what that is, the sagacious readers may likewise probably suggest to themselves; if not, they must wait our time for disclosing it. Amelia — Complete
  • He was wise and sagacious, but prone to dissension and his spirit was that of calmness under fire.
  • But he was a good businessman, and Arnold had occasionally wondered whether Freddie Keeler was a deal more sagacious than he appeared. A TROUT IN THE MILK
  • However, his deeply felt and meticulously researched rhetoric conveyed in all his books is hard hitting, provocative and sagacious.
  • Casino on sundry occasions, and sagaciously preferring places within the range of her experience to bourns neither cognate nor conjecturable, she moved gravely up towards the gate on which the Italian sat; and, after eying him a moment, -- as much as to say, "I wish you would get off," -- came to a deadlock. My Novel — Volume 04
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