shrewd

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(Αγγλικός)

Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters.
Artful, tricky or cunning.
(informal) streetwise, street-smart.
Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen.
Nigh accurate.
Severe, intense, hard.
Sharp, snithy, piercing.
(archaic) Bad, evil, threatening.
(obsolete) Portending, boding.
(archaic) Noxious, scatheful, mischievous.
(obsolete) Abusive, shrewish.
(archaic) Scolding, satirical, sharp.

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/ʃɹuːd/

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From Middle English schrewed (“depraved; wicked”, literally “accursed”), from schrewen (“to curse; beshrew”), from schrewe, schrowe, screwe (“evil or wicked person/thing”), from Old English sċrēawa (“wicked person”, literally “biter”). Equivalent to shrew + -ed. More at shrew. The sense of "cunning" developed in early 16ᵗʰ c., gradually gaining a positive connotation by 17ᵗʰ c.