English-Danish translations for shrewd

• fiffig
• klog
• listig
• snu
  Jeg er bange for, at der vil være kloge, snu og smarte embedsmænd, som vil forstå at profitere af dette gyldne håndtryk. I fear, you see, that there will be crafty, shrewd and smart officials who will succeed in benefiting from this golden handshake.

Definition of shrewd

• Showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters
• Streetwise
• Knowledgeable, intelligent, keen
• Nigh accurate
• Severe, intense, hard
• Sharp, snithy, piercing
• Bad, evil, threatening
• Portending, boding
• Abusive, shrewish

Examples

• a shrewd guess
• a shrewd blow, or assault
• a shrewd wind

Related words

• shrew
• shrewdness
• shrewdly
• beshrew
• shrewish
• Shrewsbury
• beshrewing
• treeshrew
• shrewishness