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shrewd
Synonyms and Antonyms of shrewd
- a shrewd used car dealer who knew how to make the best possible deal
- shrewd investments that paid off big
artful, cagey (also cagy), crafty, cunning, devious, foxy, guileful, slick, sly, subtle, tricky, wily
discerning, insightful, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, sagacious, sage, sapient, wise
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)
birdbrained, brain-dead, brainless, dim-witted, dopey (also dopy), dumb, empty-headed, feebleminded, 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
- She pulled her coat tighter against the shrewd breeze whipping down the alley.
- A shrewd operator in the real estate game, she made every buyer think they were getting the deal of the century.
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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