Synonym: artful, canny, clever, crafty, cunning, foxy, keen, knowing, sharp, smart, smooth. Antonym: dull. Similar words: shrew, cash register, crew, screw, strewn, shrug, shrink, shrimp. Meaning: [ʃruːd] adj. 1. marked by practical hardheaded intelligence 2. used of persons.
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(121) Instantly the portly lady's face became exceedingly sober and shrewd.
(122) Where Hong Kong once showed the world that performing a flying kick the length a large room wit can be. now it can proselytise the virtues of a shrewd recovery plan.
(123) John Cheever, with a sociologist's shrewd and exquisite eyes, observes American society, especially the mid die class in New York and their ways of life.
(124) With shrewd tact and womanly kindness Nadyezhda had won his complete trust.
(125) But Mr Kim , for all his megalomania and paranoia , is a shrewd tactician.
(126) Banjo is no great reasoner where affection enters , but shrewd enough without it.
(127) Affable, friendly, exceedingly shrewd , and speaking French capably, he was admirably suited for his task.
(128) She was no great reasoner where affection entered in, but shrewd enough without it.
(129) Successful use of the variation method depends on our ability to make shrewd choice of the trial function.
(130) Mr Smith is a shrewd man, he is not to be caught with chaff.
(131) Agatha Christie's fictional sleuth is often dismissed as scatterbrained, but she is actually a shrewd judge of character and harbors deep knowledge of the dark side of human nature.
(132) Louis surveyed me with his shrewd gray eyes and shook his head portentously.
(133) Flattery cuts no ice with Alison , she's far too shrewd.
(134) The shrewd shipper's remark shed light on why he shrank and shift duties onto others.
(135) The Honourable Harold was nobody's fool and had a reputation as a shrewd, successful businessman.
(136) And the count turned to the cook, who with a shrewd and respectful face looked observantly and sympathetically from father to son.
(137) Keycase was shrewd enough not to step too far outside his own specialty.
(138) Mr Adams is a shrewd man,(http://sentencedict.com/shrewd.html) he is not to be caught with chaff.
(139) The mathematician , Yurchenko , was a stubby , phlegmatic , shrewd person.
(140) In truth it is a shrewd, if shameless, ploy by a power couple who know that the value of their brand is tanking.
(141) Capuchin monkeys are famously shrewd and resourceful primates, the New World equivalent of chimpanzees.
(142) Drouet was not shrewd enough to see that this was not tactful.
(143) She answered pomposity with irony and dominated conversations by her personality and shrewd psychology.
(144) So that's why I call myself lost cat, not the shrewd DingDong Cat.
(145) A: My boss is such a shrewd businesswoman that everyone admires her.
(146) My mother had consequently made her own shrewd deductions about what was going on in my marriage.
(147) The shrewd and tenacious goblins are the Horde's newest playable race with the Cataclysm expansion.
(148) Mr. Whitelaw is rather shrewd, but his shrewdness is more about people than about issues.
(149) But analysts said that for Microsoft, which this year had considered waging a proxy fight for control of Yahoo, backing Mr. Icahn also represents a shrewd strategy with little downside risk.
(150) His skill in negotiating earned him a reputation as a shrewd tactician.
More similar words: shrew, cash register, crew, screw, strewn, shrug, shrink, shrimp, shrug off, three, rewarding, mushroom, thread, threat, threshold, threaten, interfere with, with regard to, with respect to.