How To Use Shrewd In A Sentence

his vocabulary alone is worth the cover price - gantries, quinquireme, discalced, carrack, loxodrome, godown, scutch, so shrewd in his deployment of detail, so blessed with good luck and goodwill that we forget the conceit and just enjoy the ride. The Seattle Times
He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV
These malignant Las Vegas showgirl lookalikes are holding Earth hostage, controlling the monsters with shrewdly hidden remote devices.
For them there was no shelter from the cold, no shrewd crawling to leeward in snug nooks. THE SCORN OF WOMEN
General manager Danny Ferry made a shrewd move in signing the 32-year-old power forward.

He also looks a shrewd investment. The Sun
It is not merely that she is eloquent and articulate; she is also unusually shrewd and intelligent.
Don't bet against it as this Donegal team have the basis upon which a shrewd operator like Brian can build.
But he appears to have made another shrewd move. Times, Sunday Times
Malcolm is a shrewd and realistic businessman.
While his shrewdness commands respect, it also inspires fear.
This is how the deceivers are deceived, for he who can cozen me is shrewd indeed.
The good news for Kings fans is that Petrie is a shrewd dealmaker.
An ambiguous face -- strong and vulnerable, naïve and shrewd. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
It was to a large extent a self-education with the characteristic vices and virtues; when he came to power in 1949 he was still the brilliant autodidact, mixing shrewd unorthodox insights with astonishing ignorance.
He was a shrewd lawyer with a talent for uncovering paper trails of fraud.
Since British Energy, the nuclear-power generator, was restructured and its shares were relisted at the start of the year, it has attracted a shrewd following.
But in reality he seems to have had a fairly shrewd sense of the potential scale and scope of this enterprise and to have laid the foundations of widespread recruitment with some assiduity. 'The Crusades'
I have a shrewd idea who the mystery caller was.
She was a shrewd judge of character; so was her acquisitive self-interest. Times, Sunday Times
He was uneducated, but he possessed that exact knowledge of mankind that makes leaders; and his shrewdness was the result of caution and suspicion. Half a Rogue
Up until the final ten minutes this has been an intelligent, witty and unusually shrewd look at the social acceptance of mixed race relationships.
She was shrewd enough to guess who was responsible.
He was a shrewd lawyer with a talent for uncovering paper trails of fraud.
The mother of all women had to be a cat, a little, wizened, sad-faced, shrewd ring-tailed cat. CHAPTER X
She shrewdly predicted the stock market crash.
The great Democratic presidents were not merely shrewd enough to balance their domestic programmes with a proficiency at fighting wars.
He read long and attentively, various tedious and embarrassed letters, in which the writers, placing before him the glory of God, and the freedom and liberties of England, as their supreme ends, could not, by all the ambagitory expressions they made use of, prevent the shrewd eye of Markham Woodstock
He's a shrewd businessman and hard as nails.
Siegemaster was fourth in the 3m novices 'hurdle at last season's Festival and is trained by a shrewdie, Dessie Hughes, who boasts a fine record at the meeting. Undefined
The fortunate owner of this derived quite a little income of meal by shrewdly loaning it to his knifeless comrades. Andersonville
His countenance was the droll medley of fun, shrewdness, and blundering, that is so often found in the Irish peasant, and which appears to be characteristic of entire races in the island. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"
Despite his kindly, sometimes whimsical air, he was a shrewd observer of people.
On this evidence, it is a shrewd move. The Sun
His painting rose to a fresh expressiveness and revealed a shrewder insight.
She is such a shrewd judge. The Sun
Sheringham left Old Trafford in the summer and the evidence now suggests it was a shrewd move.
False coin is pass most easily upon the shrewd banker.
Fleming was regarded in railroad and banking circles as a shrewd operator.
He's an artist, a scientist and a shrewd businessman rolled into one.
From this standpoint, the city's monstrous caricature of futurism is simply shrewd marketing.
Recovering, he knocked his opponent down with a shrewd uppercut to the jaw, and fell upon him. LION IN THE VALLEY
How could some of Australia's biggest and shrewdest media outlets get done so badly.
The air of contented shrewdness was all the more of a merit.
Commanding his Galatian troopers with valor and shrewdness, Quintus Poppaedius Silo penned Labienus in halfway through the pass across Mount Amanus called the Syrian Gates, and waited for Ventidius to bring up the legions. Antony and Cleopatra
The Vice Dean reminded us of a significance of a comments of Enobarbus as a shrewd as good as mostly sarcastic spectator of this adore affair: an researcher both detered by his master's debility in agreeable to Cleopatra's charming energy as good as fascinated himself by a Egyptian queen's witchery. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
Sublime the cataract might be to the casual visitor, but shrewder eyes were taking its measure.
There was a great night's entertainment had by all with several shrewd punters making money on the tote and others leaving the premises with quite a hole in their pockets.
Edward displayed shrewdness and ruthlessness in the way he turned on nobles who had usurped his power during his minority.
Her novels were a vehicle for shrewd social comment.
If, as I am positing, Clare assumes the Byronic form to dramatize the limits of his own poetic persona, this maneuver indicates a shrewd perception of how, in the phenomenon of Byronism, the extremes of aristocratic and popular traditions meet; above the law, the poetic "free-booter" is redeemed by "the notice and affections of the lower orders" (Clare qtd. in Martin 85; Byron qtd. in Strickland 61). Like
She answered pomposity with irony and dominated conversations by her personality and shrewd psychology.
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
Making objectives explicit is a hostage to fortune and the failure to do so may reflect a shrewd awareness. 2.
The onetime gas pipeline company had shrewdly used its rights of way to diversify into telecommunications.
And the time and money spent on them is proving a shrewd investment. Times, Sunday Times
Pamela Harris, director of Georgetown University's Supreme Court Institute, added, He is an extremely shrewd and analytically precise lawyer. Justice Stevens to retire from Supreme Court
He was also a shrewd judge of character. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
Socrates'conversations as reported by Plato were full of a shrewd humor.
A shrewd and learned editor, a patient mentor, and a courteous friend, his Boswell is a lasting memorial.
Trained by Festival shrewdie Edward O'Grady, he's son of Montjeu who ran on the Flat in France after fetching a staggering 230,000 euros as a yearling. Undefined
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.
They respected his shrewd brain, and also knew him as a genial host when he entertained journalists and government press officers. Times, Sunday Times
He's an artist, a scientist and a shrewd businessman rolled into one.
In command, he proved a skilled tactician with a clear appreciation of intelligence and its uses, a shrewd negotiator and an able administrator. Times, Sunday Times
If a shrewdness of apes is so clever, why do they live where they do?
Inclined toward Communism to meet the social and political demands of his teeming peoples, he does not openly break with the West in shrewd calculation that only thence can flow the capital and technical know-how to ensure his country's economic survival and its development. Muslim and Hindu
I've learned that to get new ideas accepted, one needs to be as "shrewd as a snake and harmless as a dove. Christianity Today
He may be a hippie at heart but he's also a shrewd operator with an MBA and management know-how gleaned from stints at Andersen Consulting and from running his own consultancy.
What he has proved to be is a shrewd tactician and an astute responder to the public mood whose easy-going manner disguises some ruthless populism.
The coach showed considerable tactical shrewdness.
He ran well for shrewd connections on his British debut. The Sun
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
It has been a shrewd investment. Times, Sunday Times
Like Smith, he recognized that quality in her they each called "gameness," and even more than Smith he appreciated the commingling of Scotch shrewdness and Indian craft. 'Me--Smith'
The two Virginians were shrewd men with an imperviously close bond and an impressive degree of patience and self-control.
A shrewd diplomat must be a master of finesse.
A shrewd, hard-headed businessman typical of his age, he speedily restored abbey finances after years of mismanagement.
This promising filly gets a feather weight as she only cost 800 and she has proved a shrewd buy. The Sun
Ah, but the President was shrewd, his police were everywhere: would he be caught napping ? COUP D'ETAT
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
Scrimgeour stopped too, leaned on his stick and stared at Harry, his expression shrewd now. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Whether the intention was personal aggrandizement on the part of the family or a shrewd step towards industrial expansion is not known.
But while the Jackass guys may play knuckleheads on TV, they actually appear to be quite shrewd.
By profession a hotelkeeper, the elder Parer on all accounts had the shrewd joviality of his calling.
Her observations of people quickly gave her a shrewd idea of people's personalities and hence she could, for example, give friends advice on what to expect when associate with certain others.
But he was shrewd, for he limited the number of wives by a property qualification, and becausei of which he, above all men, was favored by his wealth. A HYPERBOREAN BREW
From last year's Avandia warnings to the withdrawal of Vioxx, Bextra, Baycol, Meridia, Trovan and Fen Phen, "Pill Buyer Beware" seems to be a shrewd stance, especially when a drug is new. Martha Rosenberg: Moms-To-Be: Are You Taking This Dangerous Drug?
Shrewd, methodical, and determined, Banks combined business acumen with political trimming.
Very shrewd observations are to be found in his reviews, for instance his indication, in reviewing La Touche's _Fragoletta_, of that common fault of ambitious novels, a sort of woolly and "ungraspable" looseness of construction and story, which constantly bewilders the reader as to what is going on. The Human Comedy: Introductions and Appendix
ASpiritedLife. com: The Eva Mendes Spirit Interview: Kicking Ass And Revealing Some Too TeenDirectory. net: Erotic sleuthing laced with backwards babes, and Paulson on female doormat duty while Scarlett's shrewdie hangs with a murderous gang of homicidal fattie clones, like an underworld Madonna bossing an obedient crew of paunchy boy toys. Undefined
There are multiple action movies in the pipeline and his interventions in politics are shrewd and well judged. The Sun
Wolsey is near his master; his face is that of a man "exceeding wise, fair-spoken, and persuading"; he has a large, full brow, narrow and shrewd eyes, a delicate nose, and somewhat heavy and sensual cheeks. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics
The haulier will seek to exclude his contractual liability for certain acts or omissions, just like any other shrewd businessman.
As the old woman had shrewdly guessed, it was a Grey Friar who stole Candide
The defence barrister, on the other hand, was shrewd and devastatingly persuasive. Times, Sunday Times
But he appears to have made another shrewd move. Times, Sunday Times
On this evidence, it is a shrewd move. The Sun
Despite his kindly, sometimes whimsical air, he was a shrewd observer of people.
The sensitive Druid launched deep into thought, shrewdly observing the the hazel-eyed man making overtures to the daughter of Cobham.
It is just a shrewd understanding of what matters in their lives. Times, Sunday Times
A petite woman dressed in pearls and a well-tailored suit, she comes across as shrewd and hardheaded but not unsympathetic to her subjects.
Businessmen will hire shrewd youngsters, who will help boost business.
- 'Why, it is my daily pleasure now to look out for the little cottage bonnet and the silk scarf glancing through the trees in the lane, and to know that my quiet, shrewd, thoughtful companion and monitress is coming back to me: that I shall have her sitting in the room to look at, to talk to, or to let alone, as she and I please. Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
Enjoying stardom while shrewdly aware of its unreality, she was accessible, loyal, generous, with a pungent sense of humour.
It is just a shrewd understanding of what matters in their lives. Times, Sunday Times
It was a shrewd move to buy your house just before property prices started to rise.
However, he worked hard and his shrewd diplomatic judgement enabled him to help forge an alliance with France in 1717-18.
The Irishman has been one of the leading jockeys of recent seasons and is one of the shrewdest horsemen around.
However, he realized the air of empty - headed heartiness might also mask a shrewd mind.
As the Devil is ordinarily by no means wanting in shrewdness, the omission might perhaps be set down to his credit on the score of charity, but for his abominable taste in matters of diabolical vertûe, as shown by his penchant for sanguinary signatures to all compacts and bonds for bad behavior made with or exacted by him, in the course of his "regular dealings" with mankind, and hence it must be considered a clear case of ignorance or oversight, that this test, compared to which there is toleration for boils even, was not applied. Life in the Rocky Mountains
But it's probably not the shrewdest color choice if you have dogs and small children and friends who are prone to overindulge and spill red wine—no matter that they apologize profusely or rush to pour club soda over the stain. Why the Carpet Is White
But Obama is acceding to Bush's brinksmanship, which is truly disappointing, Unless he is shrewdly trying to engage the Bushies while running the clock out. News Dissector Blog
When the blowoff comes, the mark finds that he has no defence for not being a shrewd man. Monday Five « Gerry Canavan
I sensed he must have been able to assume a far harsher expression when, in 1311, the Council of Vienne, with the decretal Exivi de paradiso, had deposed Franciscan superiors hostile to the Spirituals, but had charged the latter to live in peace within the order; and this champion of renunciation had not accepted that shrewd compromise and had fought for the institution of a separate order, based on principles of maximum strictness. The Name of the Rose
Four books later, Lethem has settled down a lot -- this book is only a detective story, a shrewd portrait of Brooklyn, a retold "Oliver Twist" and a story so baroquely voiced (the hero has Tourette's syndrome) that Philip Marlowe would blush. Books, 'Tis / Frank Mccourt
I am rousing a decidedly unshrewd shrewdness of apes.
I've learned that to get new ideas accepted, one needs to be as "shrewd as a snake and harmless as a dove. Christianity Today
So it apparently represents what he enjoys, but it may also reflect a very shrewd choice of career path in the future.
It is just a shrewd understanding of what matters in their lives. Times, Sunday Times
He's a smooth/slick/shrewd/clever operator.
Though still in his teens, Tom is shrewd at a bargain.
A defendant can combat an obstinate refusal even to consider compromise by a shrewd payment into court, or a Calderbank offer.
He also made shrewd investments in property. Times, Sunday Times
Casting a shrewd glance around, he perceived just below him, well within reach, one of his parishioners who was wearing a large pair of what in rustic circles are termed "barnacles" tied behind his head. The Parish Clerk
Of Tydeus next the lofty praise I will express in brief; no brilliant spokesman he, but a clever craftsman in the art of war, with many a shrewd device; inferior in judgment to his brother Meleager, yet through his warrior skill lending his name to equal praise, for he had found in arms a perfect science; his was an ambitious nature, a spirit rich in store of deeds, with words less fully dowered. The Suppliants
So I got a shrewd, close-mouthed, tight-fisted money-lender to get the mortgage transferred to him. MOON-FACE
But in other ways, the partnership is shrewd genius — for the film, for Parker, andfor a brand that hasn't been successful in more than 20 years. ‘Sex and the City’ and Halston
The whole trade mess illustrates that sometimes the shrewdest political strategy is to unswervingly follow ideological principles.
By profession a hotelkeeper, the elder Parer on all accounts had the shrewd joviality of his calling.
His eyes twinkled with a humorsome light, but his face was shrewd, alert and aggressive. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
There are multiple action movies in the pipeline and his interventions in politics are shrewd and well judged. The Sun
Lucid, intelligent, and shrewd, this is a most useful contribution to a fascinating but little-studied period of history.
A section of the conductors in the city buses, despite their remonstrations about their work load, are shrewd enough to find the situation a ‘blessing in disguise’ to stash money in bits and pieces.
Whether you knew Andy personally, or just looked forward to his incomparably shrewd dispatches from all over, there's no better way to honor his spirit.
More than three decades later, through dint of hard work and shrewd judgment, Mr. Blankfein is at the helm of Goldman Sachs, the most powerful bank on what's left of Wall Street—a position that has made him a wealthy man. Still Standing
Michael Moretti's attorney was a tall, silver-haired man in his fifties, the consigliere for the Syndicate, and one of the shrewdest criminal lawyers in the country.
Farmers were renowned in this country for being shrewd, hard-headed business man and they had not lost any of this shrewdness.
She was a shrewd judge of character; so was her acquisitive self-interest. Times, Sunday Times
The accumulation of fortunes through foresight, unusual capacity, energy, thrift, and native honorable shrewdness is in itself no crime. Philanthropy
the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time
But he was also "a shrewd diplomatic bargainerÂ and an effective collator of briefing papersÂ an excellent presidential assistant, but he was a follower, not a leader; a brilliant draftsman, not an innovator of conceptual thinking. Nixon Redivivus
Within scant minutes, DeWolf's shrewd cross-examination had entangled Hood in an exitless maze of contradictions and obvious lies.
This colorless face expressed patience, commercial shrewdness, and the sort of wily cupidity which is needful in business. At the Sign of the Cat and Racket
His success in politics is not merely that of a courageous adventurer but that of a shrewd and high-principled man.
Nevertheless the philosopher [* Andronicus; Cf.Q. 48, Obj. 1] who calls shrewdness a part of prudence, takes it for _eustochia_, in general, hence he says: "Shrewdness is a habit whereby congruities are discovered rapidly. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
shrewd purchasing requires considerable knowledge
He may not have had a formal education but he was shrewd and able to understand how power worked in Mexico. The Sun
Whether the intention was personal aggrandizement on the part of the family or a shrewd step towards industrial expansion is not known.
Whether the intention was personal aggrandizement on the part of the family or a shrewd step towards industrial expansion is not known.
They wanted to be practical, shrewd, assertive, dominating, competitive, critical, and self-controlled.
Martha's exclamation of surprise and delight at seeing the leveret was the first sound that Stephen heard in the morning; but he preserved a sullen silence as to his absence the previous night, and Martha was too shrewd to press him with questions. Fern's Hollow
a shrewd and politic reply
Rather than oppose it, they shrewdly assimilated the stories into the folklore of Christmas and Saint Nicholas.
Being a shrewd political operator, the deputy will be anxious not to be seen to be involved publicly in the co-option.
The government has been shrewd and it hasn't been frugal with funds, running up £1.5m in expenses to date after a handful of pretrial hearings.
Best of all is the wonderful, pivotal scene in which Tilly Tremayne's well-judged, shrewd widow takes on Harriet Walter's glittering bawd at chess. Women Beware Women; Bingo
Mephistophelian shrewdness on his fellow-men and the society they form. Balzac
AMC has shrewdly scheduled the program not just to help introduce "Rubicon" -- another new drama -- but seemingly to maximize its exposure while the latest round of Emmy ballots are in circulation. Variety.com
In order to rise to power, the shrewd chieftain of the Fascists did not hesitate to play the role of the apostle of free enterprise, advocating the immediate dismantling of all forms of wartime planning of economic activities.
This prequel draws new energy from supersmart casting, plus the shrewd notion of setting the beginnings of the X-Men saga in the early 1960s. Surprise: A Newly Exhilarating 'X-Men'
She sees him as idiosyncratic, traditionalist, and with a gift for combining political shrewdness with a sense of self-promotion and opportunism.
Khalifah is a Fallah-grazioso of normal assurance shrewd withal; he blunders like an Irishman of the last generation and he uses the first epithet that comes to his tongue. Arabian nights. English
It shows you just what can be done with hard work, application and being shrewd with your signings.
And the second one: 'And I did as thou biddest, O master, whispering shrewd words in thirsty ears, and raising memories of the things that were of old time. A HYPERBOREAN BREW
Shrewd in business, he had a ready wit and a distinctive appearance, with a full beard and piercing eyes.
The government machine went into hasty but shrewd action. Times, Sunday Times
He may not have had a formal education but he was shrewd and able to understand how power worked in Mexico. The Sun
He has proved a shrewd and tenacious commander, restructuring his force into roving groups of up to 300 men. Times, Sunday Times
Pfeiffer, with his shrewd stroke at the kernel of their faith in the symbol of the idol, had established a kind of godhead; and by his ferocious massacres had thoroughly cowed them. Witch-Doctors
Much of that function, they shrewdly foresee, would be sheer make-believe.
he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow
However, Donna Serafina had now risen, shrewdly suspecting the nature of the conversation which was impassioning the two girls. The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris
She also shrewdly observes that the event goes against Carlin's antiauthoritarian comedy. Can We Talk?
The novel shrewdly dissects not only the lurking presence of violence but also its naive simplification in popular media.
Before leaving London, he has cast a shrewd eye over Lady Dedlock's private apartments.
His theory has something in common with current philosophical speculation, and it is in part, as I understand, a kind of adumbration, a shrewd guess, at the present attitude of cytologists. Samuel Butler: Diogenes of the Victorians
One communard added that fighting was not the only possible strategy with the jocks; they could also be talked to, perhaps even persuaded because, unlike the cops, "they're like us"; I thought this a shrewd point. An Exchange on Columbia
His light touch, combined with a shrewd mastery of facts and figures, invariably drew favourable reaction. Times, Sunday Times
They have a simple shrewdness, which, under a better system, had made them enterprising; but this quality has degenerated into cunning and cheatery, -- the weapons which the hopelessly oppressed always use. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862
Who that has known a man quick and shrewd to see dispassionately the inner history, the reason and the ends, of the combinations of society, and at the same time eloquent to tell of them, with a hold on the attention gained by a certain quaint force and sagacity resident in no other man, can find it difficult to understand why men still resort to Montesquieu? How Books Become Immortal
This is precisely one of those compositions that a cold, clear, shrewd, and sarcastic critic would delight in clutching into his merciless grasp, to tear it into pieces and strew the floor of his study with its shivering fragments. Review
I wonder if it was the same shrewdie! The Sun
She has been a productive accomplisher her entire life; has been an imperfect yet shrewd operator her entire life. Obama and the oil spill: why would anyone expect leadership from him in this crisis?
This promising filly gets a feather weight as she only cost 800 and she has proved a shrewd buy. The Sun
This acts as another check on presidential power and a shrewd president will realise this.
The Ryder Cup is in Monty's blood," Torrance said on Saturday, and there was another vivid example of his identification with the competition in 2004, at Oakland Hills, when Bernhard Langer, perhaps the shrewdest and most calculating of all Ryder Cup captains, sent him out with Padraig Harrington to beat Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, the world's No1 and No2, in the opening fourball on the first morning. Cometh the Ryder Cup moment, cometh captain Colin Montgomerie
The new series must chart the story of how Caesar grows from faithful pet-cum-laboratory subject of a San Francisco scientist to become the leader of the shrewdness of apes.
His painting rose to a fresh expressiveness and revealed a shrewder insight.
Pianist and composer Dave Brubeck showed how a labyrinthine instrumental jazz could still storm the pop charts in the 1950s and 60s – and his musician sons Darius, Chris and Dan, augmented by British saxist Dave O'Higgins, are shrewd rekindlers of the old magic that produced hits like Take Five, while adding some personal enthusiasms. This week's new live music
They wanted to be practical, shrewd, assertive, dominating, competitive, critical, and self-controlled.
The flower of successful womanhood -- those who have bargained shrewdly -- are to be found overfed, overdressed, sensualized, in great hotels, on mammoth steamers and luxurious trains, rushing hither and thither on idle errands. Together
And shrewd businesswoman that she has quickly become, she is milking the phenomenon for all it is worth.
We can all make a shrewd guess at the meaning of fanfaronnade: how many average readers have the remotest idea of what a chamade 1 is? and is the function of newspapers to force upon us against our will the buying of French dictionaries? Foreign Words.
The bigheartedness of the man coupled with his shrewd business acumen was evident even at that tender stage of his life career as he lifted the morale of the other performers with his Stabroek News
Throw in some shrewd management and a dogged determination to prove the doubters wrong, and the losers can end up raking it in. The Sun
I suppose United States Senators have been made out of timber a deal smaller than Mart, who was a shrewd, resourceful and shifty old boy with that rugged sort of homeliness which is a good deal better than handsome looks in catching the fancy of the plain people. Tattlings of a Retired Politician
He enjoyed the play's shrewd and pungent social analysis.
You have a shrewd grasp of cash facts plus a knack of asking the right questions. The Sun
This thing being put in execution (according to his commandement) the Britains were not a little astonied at the strange sight of those gallies, for that they were driuen with ores, which earst they had not séene, and shrewdlie were they galled also with the artillerie which the Romans discharged vpon them, so that they began to shrinke and Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (3 of 8)

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