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UK
/ʃɹˈuːdli/
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[ US /ˈʃɹudɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈʃɹudɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a shrewd manner
he was acutely insightful
he invested his fortune astutely
How To Use shrewdly In A Sentence
- These malignant Las Vegas showgirl lookalikes are holding Earth hostage, controlling the monsters with shrewdly hidden remote devices.
- She shrewdly predicted the stock market crash.
- The fortunate owner of this derived quite a little income of meal by shrewdly loaning it to his knifeless comrades. Andersonville
- The man who would coolly appropriate some discoveries of others under cloak of a mere prefatorial reference was perhaps an expounder rather than an innovator, and had, it is shrewdly suspected, not much of his own to offer. A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science
- The onetime gas pipeline company had shrewdly used its rights of way to diversify into telecommunications.
- Media pundits and think tanks hailed this popular participation as a breakthrough for democracy - a triumphalism, as Fraser shrewdly notes, that mirrored American exaltation at winning the cold war.
- However the exaltedness of some minds (or rather as I shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterise and paint nature) yet surely they are as weighty and much more useful than your grave discourses upon the mind, the passions, and what not.” Fielding
- I shall not dwell upon the career of Sophia -- who has pursued her life in Paris very wisely, shrewdly, circumspectly, not to say commercially, thus showing how honest bourgeois ancestry can triumph over the flightiest of modern temperaments. Personality in Literature
- As the old woman had shrewdly guessed, it was a Grey Friar who stole Candide
- The sensitive Druid launched deep into thought, shrewdly observing the the hazel-eyed man making overtures to the daughter of Cobham.