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Definition of Shrewdnesses
1. shrewdness [n] - See also: shrewdness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrewdnesses
Literary usage of Shrewdnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brief Literary Criticisms by Richard Holt Hutton (1906)
"... follies, and weaknesses, as well as shrewdnesses and wit of human life, so
delineated as to make them all alike, seem even less important than they ..."
2. Brief Literary Criticisms by Richard Holt Hutton, Elizabeth Mary Roscoe (1906)
"... follies, and weaknesses, as well as shrewdnesses and wit of human life, so
delineated as to make them all alike, seem even less important than they ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1880)
"Lord Brougham was right ; and if the critic in the Saturday Review who declared
of 'that little farrago of learning, oddities, absurdities, and shrewdnesses ..."
4. The Complete Works by John Ruskin (1894)
"... bright-eyed, good-natured simpleton ; with the most curiously subtle shrewdnesses,
and obstinate faculties, excrescent through his simplicity. ..."
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