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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    I'd say that's a remarkably astute analysis.  (source)
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    Astute of Hank to notice that.  (source)
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    Had his astute mind guessed the secret, then?  (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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    [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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    Yet the creature was astute; mastered his fury with a great effort of the will; composed his two important letters, one to Lanyon and one to Poole; and that he might receive actual evidence of their being posted, sent them out with directions that they should be registered.  (source)
    astute = smart & 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 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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    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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    He astutely—and bravely—borrowed money to buy his own power saw, tractor, and pulpwood truck.†  (source)
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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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