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
At present Joseph Stalin, astute, sagaciously "conservative," has seen fit to squelch such activities.
From Time Magazine Archive
Andre Maurois, for example, wrote of her "sober, elliptical" style and her "remarkable economy of means," added sagaciously: "The tone of Sagan fits our times."
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
