All 3 Uses of
shrewd
in
The Fountainhead
- Then he went to work.... 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.†
Chpt 1.9 *shrewd = smart
- He was shrewd, competent and unscrupulous in the innocent manner of one unable to grasp the conception of a scruple.†
Chpt 3.1
- 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.†
Chpt 4.9shrewdest = smartest
Definition:
smart -- especially in negotiating with people (may infer underhanded dealings)