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shrewd
Synonyms and Antonyms of shrewd
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having or showing a practical cleverness or judgment
artful, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, devious, dodgy [chiefly British], foxy, guileful, pawky [chiefly British], slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily
discerning, insightful, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, wise
discriminating, discriminative
agile, alert, brainy, bright, brilliant, clever, intelligent, keen, nimble, quick, quick-witted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted
artless, guileless, ingenuous, innocent, naive (or naïve)
exploitable, gullible (also gullable)
airheaded, birdbrained, brain-dead, brainless, dim-witted, dopey (also dopy), dumb, empty-headed, feebleminded, gormless [chiefly British], half-witted, knuckleheaded, lamebrain (or lamebrained), lunkheaded, simple, slow, slow-witted, softheaded, stupid, thickheaded, thick-witted, unintelligent, weak-minded
foolish, idiotic (also idiotical), imbecile (or imbecilic), moronic, silly, thoughtless, witless
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causing intense discomfort to oneʼs skin
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clever at attaining one's ends by indirect and often deceptive means
crooked, deceitful, deceptive, dishonest, fraudulent, insinuating, knavish, Machiavellian, oblique, serpentine, shady, shifty, slippery, sneaky, treacherous, underhand, underhanded, unscrupulous
backhanded, double-dealing, hypocritical, insincere, left-handed, mealy, mealymouthed, smooth-tongued, two-faced
circuitous, circular, roundabout
clandestine, concealed, covert, furtive, hugger-mugger, secret, stealthy, surreptitious, undercover
Synonym Discussion of shrewd
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- a shrewd judge of character
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- sagacious investors got in on the ground floor
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- a perspicacious counselor saw through the child's facade
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- an astute player of party politics
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