shrewd

[ʃruːd]

Definition:
1. Marked by practical hardheaded intelligence.
2. Used of persons.

Use 'shrewd' in a sentence:

1. For example, lawyers are shrewd and dishonest is a popular stereotype.
2. My boss is a shrewd businessman.
3. He was too shrewd to believe that it must exist.
4. "shrewd or devious management, especially for one's own advantage"
5. However, he realized the air of empty-headed heartiness might also mask a shrewd mind.
6. That shrewd and knavish sprite call'd Robin Goodfellow ( Shakespeare)
7. "She’s a shrewd woman," said Dr. Craven, putting on his coat.
8. Ben Weatherstaff chuckled and there was shrewd admiration in his little old eyes.
9. He is a shrewd business person, and knows his profit very well.
10. She's a shrewd businesswoman.
11. Yet Yota has made some shrewd choices, too.
12. The shrewd politician adapts his speech to suit the interests of the audience.
13. The president has played a shrewd diplomatic game because from the outset he called for direct talks.
14. His answer to the journalist is a shrewd one.
15. Sociopaths in possession of fully-functioning neocortexes are often shrewd and emotionally intelligent people but lack any ability to relate to, empathise with or express concern for others.
16. You wanted me to be a shrewd lawyer-- oh, yes!
17. He's too shrewd to be trusted in business matters.
18. Shrewd betting based on the rapid calculation of odds?
19. He has always shown a shrewd understanding of what consumers want.
20. This shrewd, short book explains why.
21. A shrewd reply that tells us exactly nothing.
22. Rand, on the other hand, was rhetorically shrewd.
23. Louis surveyed me with his shrewd gray eyes and shook his head portentously.
24. The President has played a shrewd diplomatic game because from the outset he called for direct talks with the United States.
25. So Chinalco and its Chinese peers will be shrewd buyers.
26. Streetwise economics is shrewd market economics.
27. Risk is a shrewd manager of each should be concerned about.
28. It was shrewd of you to make that investment.
29. He was very smart and shrewd.
30. He was essentially a shrewd commanding officer.
31. He whanged his son a shrewd one yesterday.
32. He was shrewd in his personal assessments.
33. It may be shrewd, too.
34. His grey eyes were shrewd but kindly.
35. SHREWD dealmaking or modern Caribbean piracy?
36. You made a very shrewd decision to sell when you did.
37. My mother had consequently made her own shrewd deductions about what was going on in my marriage.
38. To put it in another way: he is very shrewd.
39. She saw his dark, shrewd, unabashed eye looking into her.
40. A shrewd man knows what he can say and what he can't.
41. But he is also a tough and shrewd negotiator.
42. and it would be a deep, shrewd act of friendship.
43. There was a queer mixture of crabbed tenderness and shrewd understanding in his manner.
44. It should prove a shrewd investment.
45. I think you've made a shrewd investment there.
46. That's a shrewd move.
47. It's a shrewd tactic.
48. He is a shrewd politician.
49. He is shrewd in business.
50. He is a very shrewd operator with an incisive mind.
51. He enjoyed the play's shrewd and pungent social analysis.
52. He was a shrewd lawyer with a talent for uncovering paper trails of fraud.
53. She is a shrewd judge of character.
54. He's a shrewd businessman and hard as nails.
55. I have a shrewd idea who the mystery caller was.