shrewd
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- s marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow - s used of persons
- In Hamburg (reported the current issue of The World's Health) and in other Rhineland and southern German cities, a shrewd new system of handling beggary has been evolved.
- But writer Doug Wright has done a shrewd expansion job.
- How might a shrewd crook use a dignified manner, well-cut clothes, a gold-headed cane, proper language and a pretended association with a great public character to swindle a .