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UK
/ʃɹˈuːdli/
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[ US /ˈʃɹudɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈʃɹudɫi/ ]
ADVERB
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in a shrewd manner
he was acutely insightful
he invested his fortune astutely
How To Use shrewdly In A Sentence
- You'd not worrit yourself over the lassie, would ye now, Sassenach?" he asked shrewdly. Sick Cycle Carousel
- Paradoxically, the sagacious and shrewdly written new column entitled ‘Nightmarch’ is hidden away at the bottom of the antepenultimate page.
- From the luxury of a smart landaulette a dame of some consequence regarded him shrewdly. Anthony Lyveden
- And these people shrewdly, you know, found what would be in temporal terms the soft underbelly of the American media.
- The author apparently felt that this scene was too horrific and graphic to present to the audience, so he shrewdly decided to edit them out.
- From being a little bitter it had become increasingly affectionate, as Matey had shrewdly noted.
- One said, shrewdly, "Eh! nebber mind -- dey _come to_ by'm by -- _belly 'blige' em_ to work. The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus
- When, one by one, all of his women patients stopped doing the work of free association that they had at first enthusiastically taken up and began shyly and then importunely to declare their love for him, he shrewdly surmised that it was not 'the charms of my person' that were the cause of the disturbance but, rather, that the women were in a state of readiness to fall in love, and he was simply Bottom to their Titania. The Patient Is Always Right
- Cæsar already understood this; his mysterious and obscure connection with Cleopatra had certainly for ultimate motive and reason this political necessity; and Antony, in marrying Cleopatra, probably only applied more or less shrewdly the ideas that Cæsar had originated in the refulgent crepuscle of his tempestuous career. Characters and events of Roman History
- Enjoying stardom while shrewdly aware of its unreality, she was accessible, loyal, generous, with a pungent sense of humour.