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SHREWDLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a shrewd manner
Example:
he was acutely insightful
Synonyms:
acutely; astutely; sagaciously; sapiently; shrewdly
Classified under:
Pertainym:
shrewd (marked by practical hardheaded intelligence)
Context examples:
He ripped them open or split their skulls with shrewdly driven blows of his great hoofs.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Adele was not easy to teach that day; she could not apply: she kept running to the door and looking over the banisters to see if she could get a glimpse of Mr. Rochester; then she coined pretexts to go downstairs, in order, as I shrewdly suspected, to visit the library, where I knew she was not wanted; then, when I got a little angry, and made her sit still, she continued to talk incessantly of her ami, Monsieur Edouard Fairfax de Rochester, as she dubbed him (I had not before heard his prenomens), and to conjecture what presents he had brought her: for it appears he had intimated the night before, that when his luggage came from Millcote, there would be found amongst it a little box in whose contents she had an interest.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
When I aroused, it was as after centuries of time; and I saw, almost above me and emerging from the fog, the bow of a vessel, and three triangular sails, each shrewdly lapping the other and filled with wind.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Some people trifled with her as a mere oddity, he said; but she was as shrewdly and sharply observant as anyone he knew, and as long-headed as she was short-armed.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
He laughed shrewdly.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
