Shrewdness

The accumulation of fortunes through foresight, unusual capacity, energy, thrift, and native honorable shrewdness is in itself no crime. ❋ Unknown (2007)

She's not entirely lacking in shrewdness, though, since she knows that to some extent her best shot at revising our perceptions of her is to accede to them. ❋ Unknown (2005)

What others called shrewdness she, remembering his Grandfather Barclay, knew might grow into blind, cruel greed, and when she thought of his voice and his curly hair, and recalled Uncle Leander, the curly-headed, singing ne'er-do-well of her family, and then in the boy's hardening mouth and his canine jaw saw ❋ William Allen White (1906)

As the Devil is ordinarily by no means wanting in shrewdness, the omission might perhaps be set down to his credit on the score of charity, but for his abominable taste in matters of diabolical vertûe, as shown by his penchant for sanguinary signatures to all compacts and bonds for bad behavior made with or exacted by him, in the course of his "regular dealings" with mankind, and hence it must be considered a clear case of ignorance or oversight, that this test, compared to which there is toleration for boils even, was not applied. ❋ Unknown (1844)

Although, wouldn’t that be an ironic twist if Ben did end up being the most trustworthy because the reasons for his manipulation involve a greater good, and his manipulating, conniving shrewdness is the only way for that greater good to be achieved? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Nevertheless the philosopher [* Andronicus; Cf.Q. 48, Obj. 1] who calls shrewdness a part of prudence, takes it for _eustochia_, in general, hence he says: "Shrewdness is a habit whereby congruities are discovered rapidly." ❋ Aquinas Thomas (N/A)

He was uneducated, but he possessed that exact knowledge of mankind that makes leaders; and his shrewdness was the result of caution and suspicion. ❋ Harold MacGrath (1901)

Shrewd beyond most men, his shrewdness was the clear, piercing vision of a clean, single heart, that knew not how to ❋ Unknown (1865)

Some one has said that "sagacity, a mental quick-wittedness for meeting an emergency, a sagacity that might have been called shrewdness, had it not been for a pervading heart quality that went with it, was one of her prominent traits." ❋ Matilda Joslyn Gage (1863)

He's never shown this kind of shrewdness before, and I've been inclined lately to write him off. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think you're straining here, especially if you look up "shrewdness" (discerning awareness/acumen/accuracy, according to Webster) and "discernment" ("grasping the obscure" ibid). ❋ Ed Howard (2008)

The young man was certainly not wanting in the sort of shrewdness which is permissible to a man of honor. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Hobbie, though blunt, plain of speech, and hot of disposition, like most of his countrymen, was by no means deficient in the shrewdness which is also their characteristic. ❋ Unknown (2004)

There is a kind of shrewdness many men have that enables them to get money. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Incomprehensibly dull as blacks frequently are they occasionally exhibit shrewdness which is all the more remarkable because of its unexpectedness. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Either each Hata was honestly propounding his own agenda or else they were displaying the same kind of shrewdness Aniolo-jat attributed to the absent Jemunu-jah. ❋ Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- (2003)

You don't stay in office as Premier unless you have some kind of shrewdness as a politician. ❋ Unknown (1983)

For example, two people are driving down a street in a [low income] neighborhood and there is several thug looking black people on a front [stoop]. The person driving looks over to the passenger and gestures to them by saying "look at the shrewdness to [my left]." ❋ Winner2468 (2013)

He is a shrewd [businessman]. ❋ DeadMan (2004)

He doesn't [spend] [money] on things because he is [shrewd]. ❋ Urbandictionaryjedi (2015)

Shrewd is such a [funny guy]. [Go] [subscribe] to Shrewd. ❋ Shrewd Fan (2019)

[Tom Wright] is a shrewd character and a [fraud]. The man himself should be hung by his balls and his cat should be mutated into an [oven]. ❋ Barbadosblackman (2017)

“I talked to her and offered $30k for the Lambo but, she wanted $75k. She was an [shrewd negotiator] so we met right in the middle at $30k.” - [Ed Bolian], The Professional [Shrewd Negotiator] ❋ What122 (2019)

Ex 1: John: Well I’ll be a [monkey's] uncle! Steve Jobs has made Apple more valuable than Microsoft on the market! Justin: There's no doubt he's a [shrewd simian]. Ex 2: I just saved a lot of money by [switching to GEICO]! Call me pretentious, but this car owner feels like one shrewd simian! ❋ ShrewdSimian (2010)

[That woman] is a [Shrewd Shrew]! ❋ Justtayn (2017)

I got [shrewded on] because I was not [shrewd] [enough] ❋ Rizzard Of Roz (2023)