Noun:

புத்தி கூர்மையும்,

shrewdness தமிழ் அர்த்தத்தின் உதாரணம்:

None

shrewdness's Usage Examples:

But her life shows her to have been, besides, a woman of strong practicality and good sense, full of natural shrewdness, and with unusual powers of organization.

She had got to know the heart of the peasant - his superstitions, his suspiciousness and low cunning, no less than his shrewdness, his sturdy independence and his strong domestic attachments.

Gabel, who veiled under a mysterious reticence considerable financial ability and uncommon shrewdness, had great influence over the irresolute king.

His history is a curious compound of artlessness and shrewdness.

He throws a flood of light upon the manners and ideas of his own age; he sometimes comments with surprising shrewdness upon the broader aspects and tendencies of history.

But the king's shrewdness triumphed before long over his vengeance, and the more serviceable of the officers of Charles VII.

However, if one designs to construct a dwelling-house, it behooves him to exercise a little Yankee shrewdness, lest after all he find himself in a workhouse, a labyrinth without a clue, a museum, an almshouse, a prison, or a splendid mausoleum instead.

He early discovered his vocation as a preacher of indulgences; he combined the elocutionary gifts of a revivalist orator with the shrewdness of an auctioneer.

She was famous for her shrewdness and prophetic gifts, which enabled her to foretell the future greatness of her husband and of Servius Tullius.

To the virtues of liberality, charity and clemency he added the Machiavellian qualities of falsehood and shrewdness, so highly esteemed by the princes of his time.

Synonyms:

craftiness, insightfulness, perspicacity, street smarts, wiliness, astuteness, intelligence, knowingness, slyness, craft, guile, acumen, foxiness, cunning, perspicaciousness,

Antonyms:

artlessness, unattractive, maladroit, artless, stupidity,