All 6 Uses of
shrewd
in
Babbitt
- The entrance was too modern to be flamboyant with pillars; it was quiet, shrewd, neat.†
Chpt 3 *
- There were four of them on the long seat; a fat man with a shrewd fat face, a knife-edged man in a green velour hat, a very young young man with an imitation amber cigarette-holder, and Babbitt.†
Chpt 10
- He was to share a room at the Hotel Sedgwick with W. A. Rogers, that shrewd, rustic-looking Zenith dealer in farm-lands.†
Chpt 13
- The air was shrewd, the snow was deep in uncleared alleys, and beyond the city, Babbitt knew, were hillsides of snow-drift among wintry oaks, and the curving ice-enchanted river.†
Chpt 17
- His shrewd starveling face broadened with joy at dinner, and he blurted, "Gee whillikins, Mrs. Babbitt, if you knew how good it is to have home eats again!"†
Chpt 17
- Zilla may do a lot of rough talking, but she's pretty shrewd.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(shrewd) smart -- especially in negotiating with people (may infer underhanded dealings)