Crossword-Solution: SHREWDNESS
We have 14 clues for the answer “SHREWDNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Group of apes | 1 answer |
| Yankee trait. | 1 answer |
| intelligence manifested by being astute | 1 answer |
| ARCHNESS | 2 answers |
| percipience | 7 answers |
| Astuteness | 9 answers |
| Incisiveness | 9 answers |
| Wiliness | 10 answers |
| Craftiness | 21 answers |
| Sagacity | 22 answers |
| Keenness | 41 answers |
| Perspicacity | 43 answers |
| mother wit | 46 answers |
| Wit | 56 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHREWDNESS (5)
The rest was divided amongst the outlaws, according to their rank and merit, and the judgment of the Chief, on all such doubtful questions as occurred, was delivered with great shrewdness, and received with absolute submission.
Jonas Mallet, at the time of his marriage, was conducting with silent shrewdness a small, unpromising business.
But his native shrewdness sometimes placed his ease of temper at its mercy; with every disposition to take things simply, it was obliged to perceive that some things were not so simple as others.
The discriminating reader who has been so good as to interest himself in this little narrative will perhaps at this point exclaim with a pardonable consciousness of shrewdness: “Of course he went the next day to the Rue de Provence!” Of course, yes; only as it happens Bernard did nothing of the kind.
The man like a black wooden Noah (who was not wholly without shrewdness) noted it with a considerable but contained amusement.
Quotes with SHREWDNESS (3)
His education had been neither scientific nor classical — merely “Modern.” The severities both of abstraction and of high human tradition had passed him by: and he had neither peasant shrewdness nor aristocratic honour to help him. He was a man of straw, a glib examinee in subjects that require no exact knowledge (he had always done well on Essays and General Papers) and the first hint of a real threat to his bodily life knocked him sprawling.
Marrying a stupid person is a reflection of your thoughtlessness. Marrying a clever person is a reflection of your intelligence. Marrying a wise person is a reflection of your shrewdness. Marrying a virtuous person is a reflection of your uprightness.
But Pierre had been born with a shrewdness that made him early aware that a failure to believe that human events were ordered by a higher power was regarded by many in the highest positions as obnoxious and even sinful, and as nothing was to be gained by exciting such hostility, it was better to give a silent or even smiling assent to the fatuous idealism to which, particularly in youth, one was so relentlessly exposed.
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Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1951–2007).