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Shrewd
"Shrewd" in a Sentence (18 examples)
He is shrewd and calculating.
He may be a poor talker and far from shrewd, but I like him all the better for that.
They are shrewd in trade.
I have a pretty shrewd idea that this room contains the answer to the whole mystery.
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Tom was a shrewd businessman and his company went from strength to strength.
Tom is a shrewd businessman.
Tom is a very shrewd businessman.
He was a strong-minded man, sir, shrewd, practical, and as unimaginative as I am myself.
She is a shrewd one.
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Willie is very aware of this fact and lets Johnny Attell know that there is a fly in the ointment, and Johnny, who is a very shrewd article, has his chauffeur drive him to Bradford Street so he can change the kid's mind.
The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.
a shrewd guess
a shrewd blow, or assault
a shrewd wind
Portia: There are some shrewd contents in yon same paper, That steals the colours from Bassanio's cheek: Some dear friend dead; else nothing in the world Could turn so much the constitution Of any constant man. What, worse and worse!— […]
They were wont to please the Fairies, that they might doe them no shrewd turnes, by sweeping clean the Hearth and setting by it […]
Leonato: By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.
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