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Definition of shrewdness in English: shrewdnessnoun ˈʃruːdnəsˈʃrudnəs mass noun1The quality of having or showing good powers of judgement. he is a man of some tactical shrewdness Example sentencesExamples - He looked me in the eye with what he obviously believed to be a look that blended shrewdness and menace.
- Offering critics a helping hand by planting for their use a ready-made descriptive vocabulary reflects his shrewdness of strategy.
- Farmers were renowned in this country for being shrewd, hard-headed business man and they had not lost any of this shrewdness.
- While his shrewdness commands respect, it also inspires fear.
- Edward displayed shrewdness and ruthlessness in the way he turned on nobles who had usurped his power during his minority.
- He is fiendishly bright, well-spoken in a very clipped, Scottish kind of way, but streetwise too; a bit like a smartly dressed bookie who views the world through a veil of tobacco smoke and shrewdness.
- He is constantly reminding them that "it's a business" and the charmed life they have led in the media is mainly due to his shrewdness and accessibility.
- What he lacked in money and sporting prowess, he made up in shrewdness.
- She sees him as idiosyncratic, traditionalist, and with a gift for combining political shrewdness with a sense of self-promotion and opportunism.
- Certainly he surprised observers by the scope of the shrewdness and intelligence which he brought to bear on his self-justifications.
Synonyms astuteness, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, acuteness, acumen, acuity, intelligence, cleverness, smartness, alertness, wit, canniness, common sense, discernment, insight, understanding, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness, discrimination, knowledge, sagacity, sageness cunning, artfulness, craftiness, wiliness, calculation, calculatedness informal nous, horse sense, savvy rare sapience, arguteness 2rare count noun A group of apes. Example sentencesExamples - I am rousing a decidedly unshrewd shrewdness of apes.
- 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.
- 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.
- While the fight may not be as visually arresting as, say, a shrewdness of apes stampeding across San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, it will certainly do.
- If a shrewdness of apes is so clever, why do they live where they do?
Definition of shrewdness in US English: shrewdnessnounˈSHro͞odnəsˈʃrudnəs 1The quality of having or showing good powers of judgement. he is a man of some tactical shrewdness Example sentencesExamples - Certainly he surprised observers by the scope of the shrewdness and intelligence which he brought to bear on his self-justifications.
- Edward displayed shrewdness and ruthlessness in the way he turned on nobles who had usurped his power during his minority.
- Farmers were renowned in this country for being shrewd, hard-headed business man and they had not lost any of this shrewdness.
- He is constantly reminding them that "it's a business" and the charmed life they have led in the media is mainly due to his shrewdness and accessibility.
- What he lacked in money and sporting prowess, he made up in shrewdness.
- She sees him as idiosyncratic, traditionalist, and with a gift for combining political shrewdness with a sense of self-promotion and opportunism.
- He looked me in the eye with what he obviously believed to be a look that blended shrewdness and menace.
- Offering critics a helping hand by planting for their use a ready-made descriptive vocabulary reflects his shrewdness of strategy.
- He is fiendishly bright, well-spoken in a very clipped, Scottish kind of way, but streetwise too; a bit like a smartly dressed bookie who views the world through a veil of tobacco smoke and shrewdness.
- While his shrewdness commands respect, it also inspires fear.
Synonyms astuteness, sharp-wittedness, sharpness, acuteness, acumen, acuity, intelligence, cleverness, smartness, alertness, wit, canniness, common sense, discernment, insight, understanding, penetration, perception, perceptiveness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness, discrimination, knowledge, sagacity, sageness 2rare A group of apes. Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- If a shrewdness of apes is so clever, why do they live where they do?
- While the fight may not be as visually arresting as, say, a shrewdness of apes stampeding across San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, it will certainly do.
- 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.
- I am rousing a decidedly unshrewd shrewdness of apes.
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