Shrewdly

adv

adv ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a shrewd manner.

    "Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen."

Adverb
  1. 1
    in a shrewd manner wordnet

Synonyms

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acutelyastutelydiscreetlyguilefullyintelligentlyjudiciously

Example

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"It surprised everyone except Mary, who had shrewdly foreseen it."

Etymology

From shrewd + -ly.

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