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Meanings of perspicacious in anglès

Acutely insightful and wise.

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        Mentally acute or penetratingly discerning.

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              Examples for "clear-sighted"
              Examples for "clear-sighted"
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              Madam, - Congratulations on a measured and clear-sighted Editorial of November 14th.
              The Irish Times
              2
              In vain had the clear-sighted Bishop of Acqs uttered his eloquent warnings.
              History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the ...
              3
              The latter not only instruct their unfortunate fellow-sufferers, but also the clear-sighted.
              Paris as It Was and as It Is / A Sketch Of The French Capital, I...
              4
              She was too clear-sighted and intelligent to proceed to question the Emperor.
              The Court of the Empress Josephine
              5
              Two minds as clear-sighted as hers and mine cannot deceive each other.
              Beatrix
              1
              There's also a need to be clear-eyed about the agendas at work.
              The Guardian
              2
              In Collins' sympathetic but clear-eyed account, they come off as strangely admirable.
              Wired
              3
              Such clear-eyed mass production makes the Xenomania team look like slack amateurs.
              The Guardian
              4
              Because a stalwart and clear-eyed democracy needs America and will have it.
              54-40 or Fight
              5
              Long seemed the hours to Sinfiotli, but Sigmund was calm and clear-eyed.
              The Story of Sigurd the Volsung

              Having or revealing keen insight and good judgment.

                    Usage of perspicacious in anglès
                    1
                    Your father was too perspicacious a jobber to believe such a false rumor.
                    A conspiracy of paper: a novel
                    2
                    Such a policy was, of course, indicative of a shrewd and perspicacious mind.
                    Catherine De Medici
                    3
                    When the perspicacious old chap left off mumbling, all was still in the house.
                    'Twixt Land & Sea: Tales
                    4
                    But the reporters of the Paris press were more perspicacious.
                    The Son of Clemenceau, A Novel of Modern Love and Life
                    5
                    All this is worthy the investigation of our acute and perspicacious colleague, Dr Holmes.
                    An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American In...
                    6
                    And this is how that perspicacious matron read those signs.
                    The President: A Novel
                    7
                    The anger and hatred of a people are perspicacious.
                    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
                    8
                    He knew him to be nervous, on the one hand, and perspicacious on the other.
                    Cosmopolis — Volume 1
                    9
                    But he was less perspicacious than the older man.
                    A Florida Sketch-Book
                    10
                    Yet doubtless the perspicacious Montignac knows his man.
                    An Enemy to the King / From the Recently Discovered Memoirs of t...
                    11
                    It is a pleasure-anunusual pleasure, I might say-topresent a case to so perspicacious a court.
                    The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
                    12
                    Women are idealists; but then they are so perspicacious".
                    Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
                    13
                    That is true, Monsignor; I have placed my only hope in the very just and perspicacious Leo XIII.
                    The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2
                    14
                    This count was truly as wise in military matters as he was perspicacious and discriminating in literary matters.
                    The Deeds of God Through the Franks
                    15
                    His name was Captain Charles Young, and a more intelligent and perspicacious officer would be hard to find.
                    In the shadow of the cypress
                    16
                    She consulted with the perspicacious Mr. Harris, and especially sought from him detailed information as to partnership law.
                    Within the Law: From the Play of Bayard Veiller
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                    Perspicacious through the time