shrewdly

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English

Etymology

shrewd +‎ -ly

Adverb

shrewdly (comparative more shrewdly, superlative most shrewdly)

  1. In a shrewd manner.
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      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.

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