All 16 Uses
shrewd
in
The Adventures of Augie March
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- And he was very shrewd, his sister said.†
Chpt 2 *shrewd = smart
- Finishing her speech, she had a terrific look of shrewd pleasure.†
Chpt 4
- He had a lot of respect from everyone for his shrewdness, and when he opened his grand old mouth to say something about a chattel mortgage or the location of a lot, in his laconic, single-syllabled way, the whole hefty, serious crowd of businessmen in the office stopped their talk.†
Chpt 5shrewdness = intelligence
- Thus, the light switched on, there was Einhorn in his BVDs, wasted arms freckled, grizzled hair afly from his face that was inclined to flatness, the shrewd curved nose and clipped mustache.†
Chpt 5shrewd = smart
- When all this was arranged and in place, all proper, he could begin to operate, back of his polished barrier approached by two office gates, where he was one of the chiefs of life, a white-faced executive, much aware of himself and even of the freakish, willful shrewdness that sometimes spoiled his dignity and proud, plaquelike good looks.†
Chpt 5shrewdness = intelligence
- He had an important bearing with their representatives—clabber-faced, with his intelligent bit of mustache and shrewd action of his dark eyes, chicken-winged arms at rest.†
Chpt 5shrewd = smart
- And now, with eager shrewdness of nose and baggy eyes, he began to increase his range; sometimes, with what white hair bunched over his ears and his head lifted back, he looked grand, suffering more for than from something, relaxing his self-protective tension.†
Chpt 5shrewdness = intelligence
- What a shrewd old bastard, my dad, a real phenomenon.†
Chpt 6shrewd = smart
- She was on me, sharp and shrewd, just like a police matron.†
Chpt 8
- She had remarkably handsome eyes, soft, with occasional lights of distaste though, shrewd, and expressing immense power of management; but also they were warm.†
Chpt 11
- Shrewdly, Simon gave me little money; mostly he gave me things.†
Chpt 11shrewdly = in a smart manner
- Anyway, while this night club remained tops, Simon and Charlotte were great ones for it, as much, shrewdly, for the lowdown to be gotten there and contacts and public life and business, as to have their pictures taken by flashbulbs, laughing and in shenanigan embraces with paper caps and streamers, an important face at their table, a singer in strapless gown appealing with her lifted chin and fine teeth, or the chairman of a board finishing a drink.†
Chpt 11
- He considered me for a while; he had gotten to be wrinkled at the eyes, sallow, shrewd, stillish, a commentator.†
Chpt 12shrewd = smart
- But so was her habitual shrewdness involuntary, the shrewd suspiciousness of a rich girl.†
Chpt 14shrewdness = intelligence
- But so was her habitual shrewdness involuntary, the shrewd suspiciousness of a rich girl.†
Chpt 14shrewd = smart
- But all the same," she said with a sudden shrewdness and frankness—and I might have known it was there—"it's her house, isn't it, and all the things are hers?†
Chpt 18shrewdness = intelligence
Definitions:
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(1)
(shrewd) smart -- especially in negotiating with people (may infer underhanded dealings)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)