Acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end.
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Examples for "shrewd "
Examples for "shrewd "
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.
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.
1 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 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.
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 - she seemed normal.
6 The sacking of any KWS official who has been conniving with the poachers.
7 Your kindness may be meanness now, and your bleak honesty fretful and conniving .
8 It was bad enough to suppose that the politicians were conniving in this.
9 I had my drink and my gaming, Hevis had his scheming and conniving .
10 Then the sneaky, conniving , son of a bitch added, The baby's due soon.
11 Dominique was glamorous, sophisticated, wealthy and intelligent, but just as conniving as Alexis.
12 She bowed her head, vanishing from him under her conniving hat-brim.
13 Or was he conniving to steal what had once been his?
14 Here was Marlanx on Graustark soil, conniving with cutthroats, commanding them without opposition.
15 Women were either timid and ripe for sacrifice or jealous and conniving goddesses.
16 Of all the sneaky, low-down, conniving - She 'd handed out a suitcase full of books!
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