shrewdness / ˈʃrud nɪs /

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shrewdness 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. the quality of being astute or sharp in practical matters; the ability to find and pursue the most advantageous course of action, sometimes at the cost of moral compromise: He had the gift of storytelling, but not the ordinary shrewdness to convert the talent into a bankable asset.Michnik says that the marketplace frequently “chooses banality over excellence, shrewdness over nobility, empty promise over true competence.”

shrewdness 近义词

n. 名词 noun

astuteness

shrewdness 的近义词 6
shrewdness 的反义词 2

更多shrewdness例句

  1. The answer didn’t gel with his decades-long experience as a shrewd observer of market shakeouts.
  2. That’s why many shrewd observers have looked to this year’s report to provide a particularly important gauge.
  3. Join the brilliant minds, leading founders, shrewd investors and boundary-pushing engineers determined to shape the future of space exploration and everything that entails.
  4. In the arc of his life, we see a man who earned his place in history through struggle and shrewdness; persistence and faith.
  5. Here we saw many types of the Yorkshire man, famed for his shrewdness and fondness for what we would call "dickering."
  6. Scotch shrewdness expresses itself in a phraseology all its own, and of which Donald alone possesses the secret.
  7. Scotch shrewdness has occasionally a certain smack of mild hypocrisy, which, however, does no harm to anyone.
  8. Arnold paused, and his glance held something of shrewdness and a livening challenge.
  9. There is an air of anxious expectancy about him, with a look of Semitic shrewdness in the long, narrow face.