Usually means: Cleverly using judgment and insight.
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  1. shrewdly: Merriam-Webster
  2. shrewdly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shrewdly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shrewdly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Shrewdly, shrewdly: Wordnik
  6. shrewdly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. shrewdly: Wiktionary
  8. shrewdly: Dictionary.com
  9. shrewdly: Rhymezone
  10. shrewdly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. shrewdly: FreeDictionary.org
  12. shrewdly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. shrewdly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. shrewdly: Legal dictionary

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▸ adverb:  In a shrewd manner.

Similar:
sagaciously, astutely, sapiently, shrewly, shrewishly, savvily, smartly, prudently, cleverishly, politicly, more...

Opposite:
naively, foolishly, imprudently

Types:
cleverly, more...

Phrases:
shrewdly astute, more...

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    charcoal,     slate gray,     midnight blue,     olive green,     burgundy, more...

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Similar:
sagaciously, astutely, sapiently, shrewly, shrewishly, savvily, smartly, prudently, cleverishly, politicly, more...

Opposite:
naively, foolishly, imprudently

Types:
cleverly, more...

Phrases:
shrewdly astute, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     midnight blue,     olive green,     burgundy, more...



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