shrewd
50
4.7
- adjective
- /ʃruːd/
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- She made a shrewd decision to invest in the growing tech startup.
- a shrewd businessman
- shrewd judgment
- shrewd insight
I mean, this is how brilliant and shrewd the left is.
- I mean, this is how brilliant and shrewd the left is.
- To get to where he's been in business, he's had to be shrewd, ruthless and direct.
- Justinian uses a combination of bribes, fortifications and shrewd diplomacy to keep them at Bay.
- But in Letters from the Underground and the rest of his books, he is the shrewdest and cleverest of writers.
- Rather, what this looks like to me is exactly the sort of shrewd power play that we have come to expect from NVIDIA.
- But he, whereas I'm sort of a bit of a ball in the China shop, he's more shrewd and sensible.
- Well, journalistically, I think it was shrewd and strategic for this defining moment in history.
- He's such a shrewd businessman, a great guy, a father, great person, so smart.
- And that was quite a shrewd move by Andreessen Horowitz, getting out of tech and into real estate like that.
- And the path to financial betterment for most people is to shrink their expense column, maybe even be miserly and really shrewd.
- And the really shrewd grifters keep on changing their grift with culture and they're constantly adjusting.
- So, And look, you leveraged it and you're, you're right to say, you know, for people to be really shrewd about how they play the game.
- OK, so, so my, one of my favorite bosses at in my entire life was my boss, my first boss at Google, who was a very shrewd business person, OK.
- So like the biggest fish, they're smart and more importantly, they're shrewd.
- You know, tabloid reporters are very smart people and shrewd and want to kind of know what what you're up to.
Examples
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Charles Darwin inherited a considerable fortune and then increased his stake by shrewd investments.
Academic text (1996) -
We have enough information to make shrewd judgments about their construction.
Academic text (2004) -
But I have a fairly shrewd idea that a major foreign power is behind it all.
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The wizard appeared powerful and shrewd and might prove his greatest danger.
Fiction book (1991) -
Rather, what this looks like to me is exactly the sort of shrewd power play that we have come to expect from NVIDIA.
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It was shrewd of him to stay away from Rome until today.
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You're too shrewd for me, so I'll just be honest.
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You've been shrewd in the way you've saved up money, all these years.
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Mr. Gandhi is as shrewd a man as you will ever meet... however otherworldly he may seem.
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These shrewd moneymen have devised a loan to cover our interest on another loan.
Synonyms
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1.9
Shows quick thinking and good understanding
758
2.1
Showing good judgment from experience
573
1.7
Understands things quickly and finds smart solutions
152
3.3
Quick at noticing small details and understanding things
40
6.9
Good at understanding a situation quickly and using it to get an advantage
5
6.7
Able to understand new things very quickly
5
7.0
Very quick to understand things and find answers
2
8.6
Being very wise and good at making decisions
1
7.4
Experienced and careful about the practical side of life
1
6.5
Good at managing money and saving it
Antonyms
How Shrewd
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word shrewd is related to the old word shrew, which once meant an 'evil' or sharp person and is also the name of a small, quick animal. Over time the idea of being 'sharp' moved to the mind, so a shrewd person is clever and quick to spot a good chance.