shrewdly en · ADV
Pronunciation
- /ˈʃɹuːdliː/
Etymology
Etymology tree Middle English schrewed Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly Middle English schrewedly English shrewdly Inherited from Middle English schrewedly (“wickedly, harshly”). By surface analysis, shrewd + -ly.
Meanings
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In a shrewd manner.
Thanks to that penny he had just spent so recklessly [on a newspaper] he would pass a happy hour, taken, for once, out of his anxious, despondent, miserable self. It irritated him shrewdly to know that these moments of respite from carking care would not be shared with his poor wife, with careworn, troubled Ellen.
1913, Mrs. [Marie] Belloc Lowndes, chapter I, in The Lodger, London: Methuen, →OCLC; republished in Novels of Mystery: The Lodger; The Story of Ivy; What Really Happened, New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green and Co., […], [1933], →OCLC, page 0056:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more shrewdly | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most shrewdly | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Translations (16)
fi terävästi (in a shrewd manner) · es astutamente (in a shrewd manner) · sv klokt (in a shrewd manner) · fr avec perspicacité (in a shrewd manner) · cs chytře (in a shrewd manner) · pt astutamente (in a shrewd manner) · es con perspicacia (in a shrewd manner) · de geschickt (in a shrewd manner) · it scaltramente (in a shrewd manner) · kmr jîrkî (in a shrewd manner) · fr astucieusement (in a shrewd manner) · kmr bijîrî (in a shrewd manner) · enm sleighly (in a shrewd manner) · fi ovelasti (in a shrewd manner) · pl chytrze (in a shrewd manner) · it astutamente (in a shrewd manner)