It surprised everyone except Mary, who had shrewdly foreseen it.
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Shrewdly
Synonyms for "shrewdly" (16 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Strong matches (4)
Adverb(1 words)
Related words (8)
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Translations
16 translations across 11 languages.
Czech
1 entries- chytře adv (in a shrewd manner)
Finnish
2 entries- ovelasti adv (in a shrewd manner)
- terävästi adv (in a shrewd manner)
French
2 entries- astucieusement adv (in a shrewd manner)
- avec perspicacité adv (in a shrewd manner)
German
1 entries- geschickt adv (in a shrewd manner)
Italian
2 entries- astutamente adv (in a shrewd manner)
- scaltramente adv (in a shrewd manner)
Middle English
1 entries- sleighly adv (in a shrewd manner)
Northern Kurdish
2 entries- bijîrî adv (in a shrewd manner)
- jîrkî adv (in a shrewd manner)
Polish
1 entries- chytrze adv (in a shrewd manner)
Portuguese
1 entries- astutamente adv (in a shrewd manner)
Spanish
2 entries- astutamente adv (in a shrewd manner)
- con perspicacia adv (in a shrewd manner)
Swedish
1 entries- klokt adv (in a shrewd manner)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
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.
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