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sharper
Fierce or impetuous; violent:
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neater
Clean and in good order; trim; tidy
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wiser
The definition of wise is someone who uses good judgment, has common sense or is well informed.
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wilier
The definition of wily is something or someone who is cunning and sly.
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subtler
Delicately skillful or clever; deft or ingenious
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smarter
Amusingly clever; witty:
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slyer
(Dial.) Skillful or clever
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slicker
Accomplished; adept; clever; ingenious
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keener
Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm.
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harsher
Severe, cruel, or exacting:
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craftier
The definition of crafty is someone who is sly, clever and deceitful at achieving some goal, or someone or something related to making creative objects.
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cleverer
Smart, intelligent, or witty; mentally quick or sharp.
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cannier
Careful and shrewd in one's actions and dealings; clever and cautious
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quicker
Reacting immediately and sharply:
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savvier
Knowledgeable or proficient. Often used in combination:
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Shrewder Sentence Examples

  • But even before his day the shrewder Neoplatonists had seen that their lofty religious philosophy could not stoop to an alliance with the despotic world-empire, because it could not come in contact with the world at all.

  • His last official act was to carry out his intention by passing through parliament resolutions, which even his colleagues deprecated in the cabinet, for taxing several articles, such as glass, paper and tea, on their importation into America, which he estimated would produce the insignificant sum of L40,000 for the English treasury, and which shrewder observers prophesied would lead to the loss of the American colonies.

  • The spiritual habit abated no whit of his inborn sagacity, and it is said that in his later years political leaders found no shrewder sage with whom to take counsel.

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