Definitions for shrewd

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Spelling: [shrood]
IPA: /ʃrud/

Shrewd is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 78 anagrams from letters in shrewd (dehrsw).

Definitions for shrewd

adjective

  1. astute or sharp in practical matters:
  2. keen; piercing.
  3. artful (def 1).
  4. Archaic. malicious.
  5. Obsolete. bad1 .
  6. Obsolete. shrewish.

Origin of shrewd

1275-1325; Middle English shrewed, in part representing shrew1 + -ed3 (cf. dogged1

Examples for shrewd

It stands to reason that nowadays, to do the latter would be shrewd indeed.

As someone with a shrewd eye for the absurd, it is entirely possible somewhere Joan Rivers is smiling right now.

England had been shrewd enough to guarantee them their domains and revenues.

One was an elderly savage, with a wrinkled, shrewd countenance.

According to tradition, the typical Yankee peddler was thought to be so shrewd that he could carve and sell counterfeit nutmegs.

Oh, shrewd people, Mr Clennam: evidently people of business!

Some of his sayings were shrewd and sharp; but he was sometimes aggressive.

The deviating family melodrama has, thankfully, been replaced by shrewd spycraft.

Christine was not over-intelligent, perhaps, but she was shrewd.

They listen to their shrewd father, Tywin Lannister, smear their dead son in front of his corpse.

Word Value for shrewd
Scrable

13

Words with friends

12

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