Adjective: shrewde
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | shrewder |
| Superlative | shrewdest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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M. Mason, after his maner, was verie merie with both parties, pleasantlie playing, both, with the shrewde touches of many courste boyes, and with the small discretion of many leude Scholemasters. [1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, A Preface to the Reader:]
Adjectives inflected like shrewde
scarce,
smoove,
sombre,
wholsome,
sheene,
bolshie,
baroque,
concrete,
seveare,
comf'table,
shrewde,
'umble,
grislie,
unsubtle,
ungentle,
indiscrete,
couthie,
chavvie,
lissome,
cutesie, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology