shrewdness

How To Use shrewdness In A Sentence

• However exciting it may be for a time, parties soon tire of carrying on a losing game for the mere sake of abusing each other, and Æneas M'Quirter not being behind the generality of his countrymen in 'canniness' and shrewdness of intellect, came to the conclusion that it was no use doing so in this case, especially as the few remaining friends who still applauded would be very sorry to subscribe anything towards his losses. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
• He questioned me about the fate of the Captain Mironoff, whom he called his chum, and often interrupted me by sententious remarks, which, if they did not prove him to be a man well versed in war, showed his natural intelligence and shrewdness. Marie; a story of Russian love
• a Soviet leader of proven shrewdness
• Shrewd beyond most men, his shrewdness was the clear, piercing vision of a clean, single heart, that knew not how to An Address in Commemoration of Abraham Lincoln
• This covers up also a good deal of business acumen, shrewdness, and secretiveness which is not so childlike and bland. The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
• The coach showed considerable tactical shrewdness.
• Mrs. Poyser has something almost of Yankee shrewdness and angularity; but the figure of a New England rural housewife would lack a whole range of Mrs. Poyser's feelings, which, whatever may be its effect in real life, gives its subject in a novel at least a very picturesque richness of color; the constant sense, namely, of a superincumbent layer of "gentlefolks," whom she and her companions can never raise their heads unduly without hitting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866
• What others called shrewdness she, remembering his Grandfather Barclay, knew might grow into blind, cruel greed, and when she thought of his voice and his curly hair, and recalled Uncle Leander, the curly-headed, singing ne'er-do-well of her family, and then in the boy's hardening mouth and his canine jaw saw A Certain Rich Man
• His is a tale of jealousy, envy and treachery, but also of motherly love, shrewdness and adventure.
• I'd still be tempted to run if we encountered a number of huge hairy apes, but it's nice to know that we're escaping from a shrewdness of apes.