marked by practical hardheaded intelligence; "a smart businessman"; "an astute tenant always reads the small print in a lease"; "he was too shrewd to go along with them on a road that could lead only to their overthrow"
shrewdness
Hyphenation
shrewd·ness
Turkish pronunciation
şrudnıs
Pronunciation
/ˈsʜro͞odnəs/ /ˈʃruːdnəs/
Etymology
[ 'shrüd, esp Southern ] (adjective.) 13th century. Middle English shrewed, from shrewe + 1-ed.