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Definition of Astutest
1. astute [adj] - See also: astute
Lexicographical Neighbors of Astutest
Literary usage of Astutest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Critical Review of American Politics by Charles Reemelin (1881)
"... and who does not see the satire there was on the American people in the Hoboken
duel, when the astutest statesman was killed by a pistol-shot fired by ..."
2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"If Charles X of Sweden, one of the astutest statesmen as well as the greatest
warrior of his age, in the plenitude of his power considered it not beneath ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"If Charles X of Sweden, one of the astutest statesmen as well as the greatest
warrior of his age, in the plenitude of his power considered it not beneath ..."
4. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1903)
"the astutest of Elizabeth's diplomatists, was despatched on his to Scotland in
the autumn of 1583. ..."
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