shrewd

Equal parts bitter tragedy and shrewd satire, it’s a cautionary tale against the ephemeral allures of fame and fortune, as well as an indictment of an industry that exploits and then discards the very people who make it possible in the first place.

The deviating family melodrama has, thankfully, been replaced by shrewd spycraft.

As someone with a shrewd eye for the absurd, it is entirely possible somewhere Joan Rivers is smiling right now.

It stands to reason that nowadays, to do the latter would be shrewd indeed.

According to tradition, the typical Yankee peddler was thought to be so shrewd that he could carve and sell counterfeit nutmegs.

They listen to their shrewd father, Tywin Lannister, smear their dead son in front of his corpse.

We have a shrewd idea that he may be hanging in the neighbourhood again very shortly.

He was a shrewd observer, and had drawn his own conclusions, but discreetly kept them to himself.

The replies of Sandilla to various remarks and questions lately put to him are shrewd enough.

A kind, shrewd man was Mr. Boffin, devoted to his wife, whom he greatly admired.

She was saving and shrewd, with the Scotch-Irish passion for "getting ahead."