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  • Very astute. ... It was exactly what he himself would have done.  (source)
    astute = smart and perceptive
  • I'd say that's a remarkably astute analysis.  (source)
  • Arthur became an astute and deliberate vegetable gardener,  (source)
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  • The young man seemed rather astute, Moon thought, and determined, as well.  (source)
    astute = smart and perceptive
  • Few Little League pitchers had the courage, astuteness and ability to manage those types of pitches.  (source)
    astuteness = intelligence and perception
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • [she had] astutely gauged the prevailing temper, and not just rejected, but rejected outright and extremely rudely, all of Baby Kochamma's advances and small seductions.  (source)
    Astutely = with intelligence and perceptiveness
  • This time broken by the drawl of the astute congressman from Tennessee.  (source)
    astute = smart and perceptive
  • When Gilbert gave him a small plantation, he managed it for two years with such astuteness ... that at the end of the time he could repay Gilbert a substantial part of the purchase price.  (source)
    astuteness = intelligence
  • ...as you very astutely observed.  (source)
    astutely = with intelligence and perceptiveness
  • "You're talking like a crazy ma-" "Like a crazy man? How astute." "Damn it, Harding, I didn't mean it like that."  (source)
    astute = smart & perceptive
  • For all his sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge had gone the way of the rest.  (source)
    astuteness = smart perceptiveness
  • he had a capacity for cards, played good-humouredly, and calculated rapidly and astutely, so that he usually won.  (source)
    astutely = with intelligence and perceptiveness
  • Astute of Hank to notice that.  (source)
    Astute = smart and perceptive
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