Sample Sentences for
astute
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    Arthur became an astute and deliberate vegetable gardener,  (source)
    astute = smart and perceptive
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    Astute of Hank to notice that.  (source)
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    [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
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    I'd say that's a remarkably astute analysis.  (source)
    astute = smart and perceptive
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    For all his sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge had gone the way of the rest.  (source)
    astuteness = smart perceptiveness
    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.
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    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
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    This time broken by the drawl of the astute congressman from Tennessee.  (source)
    astute = smart and perceptive
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    Few Little League pitchers had the courage, astuteness and ability to manage those types of pitches.  (source)
    astuteness = intelligence and perception
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    He astutely—and bravely—borrowed money to buy his own power saw, tractor, and pulpwood truck.†  (source)
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    The young man seemed rather astute, Moon thought, and determined, as well.  (source)
    astute = smart and perceptive
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    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
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    His place put various converging wires of underground influence under the Chief's control, capable when astutely worked thro' his understrappers, of operating to the mysterious discomfort, if nothing worse, of any of the sea-commonalty.†  (source)
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    "How astute of you," Grover burped.  (source)
    astute = smart and perceptive
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