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Significats de shrewd en anglès

Used of persons.

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Intelligent, smart and capable of taking advantage of a situation.

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Examples for "calculating"
Examples for "calculating"
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Therefore, international guidelines recommend calculating trimester- and assay-specific reference intervals per center.
Pubmed
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He looked Mayo over in calculating fashion; he stared up the wharf.
Blow The Man Down: A Romance Of The Coast
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Do they believe that current systems for calculating bad-debt provisions are adequate?
The Irish Times
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Factors significant within each step were retained when calculating a final model.
Pubmed
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He found himself calculating how far anyone would get in three days.
Jacinto's Remnant
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Or he may be scheming how to lay hands on the balance.
Fred Fenton on the Crew; Or, The Young Oarsmen of Riverport Scho...
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This short scene made a considerable change in the writer's secret scheming.
The Muse of the Department
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THE pet dog suspects the universe for scheming to take its place.
Stray Birds
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As scheming and sycophantic as any royal family in Adarlan, she supposed.
Heir of Fire
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He was accused with fellow party leaders of scheming to overthrow Obiang.
The Guardian
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We shall never cast out the devil while conniving at his crimes.
Broken Bread, from an Evangelist's Wallet
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The mixed-up bedrooms, the cuckolded husband, the conniving slave -thosethey understood.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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Police colleagues arrested him in 2017 after years of betrayal and conniving abuse.
News.com.au
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But the more conniving criminal element sinks further out of sight.
The last page
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In these pictures, Klaudia didn't look slutty or conniving-sheseemed normal.
Twisted
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He is more cruel and calculative than I gave him credit for.
Shatter Me
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The calculative and the irrational were always in a woman's head when entertaining marriage.
Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
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Such a recital was hardly calculative to enliven the occasion.
The Love Affairs of Pixie
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Dunn said jurors arrived at the conclusion based on evidence that Reiser had strong motives for killing his wife, and his calculative behavior.
Wired
Ús de shrewd en anglès
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A slanted but shrewd look at another side of today's refugee crisis.
The Guardian
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The Congolese attacking midfielder was a shrewd acquisition from Free State Stars.
The South African
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But shrewd observers agree he remains the most likely victor in November.
The Irish Times
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Jesu, he knows how to provoke.' He gave me a shrewd look.
Sovereign
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Frodo said nothing: the shrewd guesses of the farmer were rather disconcerting.
The lord of the rings
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The unbeliever cast a shrewd look at his companion in the consultation.
Little Novels
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The scarcity of detail provided in that background again shows shrewd restraint.
Reuters
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He proved to be a surprisingly shrewd steward of the public money.
Ancient shores
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The young general looked at the shrewd, cold eyes of his chief.
Clarence
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The next experiment made by the shrewd bishop was to similar purpose.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
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At that, Rillieux's expression turned shrewd at last; he understood just fine.
The Mammoth Book of Steampunk
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Yet he had several shrewd designs in the plan of operations adopted.
With Links of Steel; Or, The Peril of the Unknown
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In the Arabian tales he is generally a shrewd, meddling, inquisitive fellow.
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
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They had the shrewd, keen look of the driller and the wildcatter.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
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Ranulph saw that he must humour the shrewd natural, so he said:
The Battle of the Strong: A Romance of Two Kingdoms — Volume 5
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Then he took the measure of his companion in a shrewd overlook.
The Grafters
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