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Definition
smart — especially in negotiating with people (may infer underhanded dealings)
- John Erik Snyte was fifty years old; he wore an expression of quizzical amusement, shrewd and unwholesome, as if he shared with each man he contemplated a lewd secret which he would not mention because it was so obvious to them both.1.9 — Part 1 Chapter 9 (9% in)
- He was shrewd, competent and unscrupulous in the innocent manner of one unable to grasp the conception of a scruple.3.1 — Part 3 Chapter 1 (79% in)
- In the course of his career he had been fought, damned, denounced by the greatest publishers of his time, by the shrewdest coalitions of financial power.4.9 — Part 4 Chapter 9 (54% in)
There are no more uses of "shrewd" in The Fountainhead.
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