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Definition
smart — especially in negotiating with people (may infer underhanded dealings)
- Always looked half asleep, but was shrewd as could be when it came to a point of law.p. 33.8
shrewd = smart
- The faded blue eyes, shrewd in spite of their age, sized up Lombard.p. 21.3
- Where had he seen that frog-like face, that tortoise-like neck, that hunched up attitude—yes, and those pale shrewd little eyes?p. 33.7
- Dr. Armstrong said shrewdly: "But now-you think differently?"p. 128.9
- Rogers said shrewdly: "But you've got an idea, Mr. Blore.p. 155.5
There are no more uses of "shrewd" in And Then There Were None.
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