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# shrewdly

adverb (shrewd, shrewder, shrewdest; shrewdly)

«shrewdly» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

To act shrewdly is to think quickly and clearly and judge well what is going on, especially when you want to gain something. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrewdly/#m1)

### In the lessons

in the tales a character speaks or thinks shrewdly, working out the truth from small clues before others do.

### Examples

- The landlord said shrewdly what he thought. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrewdly/#x1)
- Odysseus shrewdly worked out who the stranger was. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrewdly/#x2)
- She shrewdly guessed the answer. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrewdly/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «shrewdly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrewdly/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«shrewdly» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/shrewdly.html) on Mova free.