Sample sentences for SAGACIOUS

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Definition

wise — especially through long experience and thoughtfulness

sagacious = wise

sagacious = wise

Hearing her sagacious questions, I realized she has a keen mind and an understanding of political ramifications.

sagacious = wise

he was sensible and sagacious
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

sagacious = wise

But if these suspicions were really his, he sagaciously refrained from verbally expressing them,
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

sagaciously = wisely

All at once his deep-set eye assumed so sagacious and penetrating an expression, that Gringoire felt himself, so to speak, searched to the bottom of the soul by that glance.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

sagacious = wise

Besides, I found that my understanding improved so much with every day's experience that I was unwilling to commence this undertaking until a few more months should have added to my sagacity.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

sagacity = wisdom

Between these four ways, a less sagacious man would have remained undecided.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables

sagacious = wise

He could not come among us without betraying his sympathy for us, and, stupid as we were, we had the sagacity to see it.
Frederick Douglass -- The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

sagacity = wisdom

...he will direct a cool judgment sagacious and sound.
Herman Melville -- Billy Budd

sagacious = wise

If your sagacity, knowledge, and experience, could put me on the right track, I might be able to do so much; unenlightened and undirected, I can do so little.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities

sagacity = wisdom — especially through long experience and thoughtfulness

'Ah, yes, now I understand,' Luigi said sagaciously.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22

sagaciously = wisely

Morcerf asked leave to retire; he had to collect the documents he had long been preparing against this storm, which his sagacity had foreseen.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo

sagacity = wisdom

For all his sagacity, for all his caution and astuteness, the old judge had gone the way of the rest.
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

sagacity = wisdom

the other was wholly dependent on the sagacity and intelligence of the seniors of the party.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Last of the Mohicans

sagacity = wisdom

This landlord had the character, among all his neighbors, of being a very sagacious fellow.
Henry Fielding -- Tom Jones

sagacious = wise

showing him sagacious in foreseeing the wiles of the enemy
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote

sagacious = wise

Many attributed Judson's ascension through party ranks in part to his smooth political sagacity and in part to Prudence Crandall.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad

sagacity = wisdom

The town was small, but the corn and hay-trade was proportionately large, and with his native sagacity he saw opportunity for a share of it.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge

sagacity = wisdom

His actions had been sagacious things.
Stephen Crane -- The Red Badge of Courage

sagacious = wise

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