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[ adjective ] marked by practical hardheaded intelligence
Examples "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" Used in print (Tom F. Driver, "Beckett by the Madeleine,"...)Even so astute a commentator as Harold_Clurman of The Nation has said that `` Waiting_for_Godot '' is `` the concentrate of the contemporary European mood of despair '' . Related terms |
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