sagacious
adjective
having or showing acute mental discernment and keen practical sense; shrewd.
sagaciously
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a word derived from
sagacious.
Example Sentences
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Dunner sagaciously managed the call-and-response qualities of the score, though his suave, controlled reading also seemed to glide past stray bursts of piquant personality in Still’s writing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023
Critics like to write about Smith because it allows them to sagaciously read the tea leaves of fiction and society.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2018
Local opinion held that His Highness has thus sagaciously improved upon the traditional ritual of worshiping the power of Transportation by bowing down before an elephant.
From Time Magazine Archive
At present Joseph Stalin, astute, sagaciously "conservative," has seen fit to squelch such activities.
From Time Magazine Archive
I sagaciously observed, if it didn’t signify to him, to whom did it signify?
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
