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Meanings of shrewd in English
Synonyms
Examples for "calculating"
Examples for "calculating"
1
Therefore, international guidelines recommend calculating trimester- and assay-specific reference intervals per center.
2
He looked Mayo over in calculating fashion; he stared up the wharf.
3
Do they believe that current systems for calculating bad-debt provisions are adequate?
4
Factors significant within each step were retained when calculating a final model.
5
He found himself calculating how far anyone would get in three days.
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Or he may be scheming how to lay hands on the balance.
2
This short scene made a considerable change in the writer's secret scheming.
3
THE pet dog suspects the universe for scheming to take its place.
4
As scheming and sycophantic as any royal family in Adarlan, she supposed.
5
He was accused with fellow party leaders of scheming to overthrow Obiang.
1
We shall never cast out the devil while conniving at his crimes.
2
The mixed-up bedrooms, the cuckolded husband, the conniving slave -thosethey understood.
3
Police colleagues arrested him in 2017 after years of betrayal and conniving abuse.
4
But the more conniving criminal element sinks further out of sight.
5
In these pictures, Klaudia didn't look slutty or conniving-sheseemed normal.
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He is more cruel and calculative than I gave him credit for.
2
The calculative and the irrational were always in a woman's head when entertaining marriage.
3
Such a recital was hardly calculative to enliven the occasion.
4
Dunn said jurors arrived at the conclusion based on evidence that Reiser had strong motives for killing his wife, and his calculative behavior.
Usage of shrewd in English
1
A slanted but shrewd look at another side of today's refugee crisis.
2
The Congolese attacking midfielder was a shrewd acquisition from Free State Stars.
3
But shrewd observers agree he remains the most likely victor in November.
4
Jesu, he knows how to provoke.' He gave me a shrewd look.
5
Frodo said nothing: the shrewd guesses of the farmer were rather disconcerting.
6
The unbeliever cast a shrewd look at his companion in the consultation.
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The scarcity of detail provided in that background again shows shrewd restraint.
8
He proved to be a surprisingly shrewd steward of the public money.
9
The young general looked at the shrewd, cold eyes of his chief.
10
The next experiment made by the shrewd bishop was to similar purpose.
11
At that, Rillieux's expression turned shrewd at last; he understood just fine.
12
Yet he had several shrewd designs in the plan of operations adopted.
13
In the Arabian tales he is generally a shrewd, meddling, inquisitive fellow.
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They had the shrewd, keen look of the driller and the wildcatter.
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Ranulph saw that he must humour the shrewd natural, so he said:
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Then he took the measure of his companion in a shrewd overlook.
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Shrewd across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Less common
United States of America
Less common