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Definition of Shrewdest
1. shrewd [adj] - See also: shrewd
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrewdest
Literary usage of Shrewdest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"Last year some of the shrewdest of the PENCILLING FRATERNITY were had over
Theodolite when he won the Champion Hurdle- race at Sandown. ..."
2. Financial Advertising: For Commercial and Savings Banks, Trust, Title by Elias St. Elmo Lewis (1908)
"... GEORGIA BANKER'S TESTIMONY—THE MAIL ORDER BANK— THE COUNTRY HANKER—PERSONAL
EQUATION LARGE—SERVICE ALL-IMPORTANT—THE Shrewdest AND CRAFTIEST MEN IN THE ..."
3. Short Patent Sermons by Elbridge Gerry Paige (1845)
"... and therefore, like fishes, you feed upon one another; and the simplest and
the weakest fall victims to the . shrewdest and the strongest. ..."
4. Did the Early Church in Ireland Acknowledge the Pope's Supremacy?: Answered by Daniel Rock (1844)
"... has been re-echoed by the shrewdest critics of modern times.1 Following some
late French writers, who have tried in every possible way to twist the name ..."
5. History of the reign of Charles the fifth. With an account of the emperor's by William Robertson, William Hickling Prescott (1857)
"... inexperience of his successor by those lessons of practical wisdom which had
gained for him the reputation of being the shrewdest prince in Christendom. ..."
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