shrewdly
adverb/ˈʃruːdli/
/ˈʃruːdli/
- in a way that shows that somebody is clever at understanding and making judgements about a situation synonym astutely
- Linda looked at him shrewdly.
- As Marx once shrewdly observed, ‘economists are like theologians’.
Definitions on the go
Look up any word in the dictionary offline, anytime, anywhere with the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary app.
Check pronunciation:
shrewdly