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# shrewdly

«shrewdly» in Mova's school dictionary: **to think quickly and clearly and judge well what is going…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (shrewd, shrewder, shrewdest; shrewdly)

### meaning for a pupil

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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrewdly/#m1)

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

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shrewdly» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shrewdly/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.