SHREWDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does shrewdly mean? 

• SHREWDLY (adverb)
  The adverb SHREWDLY has 1 sense:

1. in a shrewd manner

  Familiarity information: SHREWDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SHREWDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a shrewd manner

Synonyms:

acutely; astutely; sagaciously; sapiently; shrewdly

Context example:

he was acutely insightful

Pertainym:

shrewd (marked by practical hardheaded intelligence)

 Context examples 

Other eyes besides mine watched these manifestations of character—watched them closely, keenly, shrewdly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I had not thought from his fair face that he had stood to this matter so shrewdly.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His face and body were scored by the teeth of many dogs, and he fought as fiercely as ever and more shrewdly.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

But if, as I shrewdly suspect, he finds the nest empty before he gets there, why, all the better for the government.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Now, mind!” she exclaimed, turning back on her way to the door, and looking shrewdly at me, with her forefinger up again.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was by sheer blundering that he chanced upon the shrewdly hidden ptarmigan nest.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Louis looked at me shrewdly.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

So unexpected was it, and so shrewdly managed, that Spitz was hurled backward and off his feet.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Oh my stars and what's-their-names! she went on, clapping a hand on each of her little knees, and glancing shrewdly at me, I'm of too full a habit, that's the fact, Steerforth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Three jacks of the wine of the country, Michel—for the air bites shrewdly.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)